What an adventure!

On Tuesday night we joined up with MMM at the Waipara Adventure Centre Project.
We parked the bus, quickly met everyone and then zapped into Christchurch to catch up with Wade before our adventure.

On Wednesday morning we started our day with a family prayer time.

Mike helped out with the Waipara project, where they are converting old damaged classrooms into bunk rooms

At morning tea time the whole MMM crew had a bible reading and prayer time together 

After lunch we headed North.  There were a lot of roadworks, the trip was very slow and we had a drama with our pantry flying open a couple of times on the windy roads and coming off its runners. We’re making it work for now and Mike intends to fix it on a weekend.

The scenery was stunning and we were reminded once again of Gods awesome majesty in creation

We arrived in Koromiko at nearly 7pm, cooked dinner and fell asleep!

Our ferry crossing was supposed to leave at 8, but ended up delayed by an hour and a half.

It was a grey yuck day which didn’t improve 

We arrived in Wellington (after the drama of trying to get the bus and car turned around on the ferry) to even more rain.

Mike braved the motorway to where we are staying the night then we went back into Wellington so the girls could see something educational.

We went to Te Papa to the Gallipoli exhibit 

It was very moving and sad.

The huge sculptures were amazing, they even had pores on skin that looked so lifelike!  Arm hairs and stubble.

We then attempted to see the Beehive and other parliament buildings but it was absolutely pouring so we drove around them and then stopped to look 

Tomorrow we travel to Martin.  We’d appreciate your continued prayers for safe travelling 

Much love to you all!

The Arthurs