Last weekend we went away and the kids experienced a bunch of new things. We flew down to the south island for my brothers wedding. It was their first time on an aeroplane which they thoroughly enjoyed, before jumping in the car for a 4hr drive which had a bunch of interesting things to look at on the way.

The day after the wedding we went for a drive around the area and looked at the hydro dams which were right next to the town we were staying in. At one of the dams there was an information centre which had a fantastic educational set up with working models of how hydro power stations work to create electricity. Both kids had heaps of fun pumping, winding and pushing levers to get the model to work.

They then went for a paddle in the very cold lake before heading back to the house we were staying in.