Ha, I love surprises!

Thursday morning I managed to get Thomas and Katie up at 7am and told them we had to be on the road by 8am as they requested. At 7.50am I told them "hurry up, we have to be at the airport in 10 minutes" They said "What???" I had booked us flites to Nelson leaving at 8.40am and the final checkin was 8.10am. Al and Toby dropped us at the airport and we flew on up on a beautiful clear sunny day on a very calm flite. We arrived at 9.30am so we did in fact have 'the whole day in Nelson' My sister Caroline, "Aunty Line" was there to pick us up and by the end of the day we had already been shopping and managed to get in the first 'flat white' of many, I'm sure.

Katie and Thomas on the plane.

View of the Ranges.

Our plane, on the tarmac at Nelson Airport.