Day 47/47  Wow, I made it!!  Forty-seven days of our summer!  Congratulations too if you've made it this far with me! And as the amazing weather continues, it was a perfect day to end what now seem to feel like a very quick school holidays.

I asked Hayden yesterday what he would like to do for the last day of the school holidays and we decided on Orana Park.  I can remember a little going there as a child on our family holidays to Christchurch (well mainly I can remember getting bitten by a rabbit!), so it's quite funny to think that it's now just a 10 minute drive down the road from where we live!  We've been there a few times in the past few years now, especially as Hayden has gotten a little older.

We got to the Park just after 10.00am and headed off to see the animals after much discussion on which way round we would go.  Hayden had the map!  We managed to time our walk to see the Lemurs and Tiger getting fed, and then the boys both fed the giraffes - there was no way Austin was going to miss out!  Unfortunately with holding a wriggly Austin I couldn't get any photos of that, but I did manage to grab a shaky iPhone video! 

After a picnic lunch and play at the playground, we jumped on the 'tractor train', and took the easy way around the park.  Austin fell asleep about half way around so we ended up staying on and going around again so that he could sleep a little longer!  I though we would only be staying half a day, but since Austin had had a sleep, we ended up staying longer and watching the lions getting fed, then time for an ice cream before heading home - at 4 o'clock!  So you can definitely say that we made the most of the last day of our holidays, and had a great day out!

And with that, the holidays are now over and it's back to school tomorrow!  I could quite happily have another couple of weeks holidays, but I guess it won't be long before we're back into the routine of it all!  Hayden is looking forward to getting back to school though, so that's the main thing. 

So thank you to everyone who has been following our 47 days of summer holidays. I have really loved reading your comments over on Facebook and I'm glad that you've enjoyed our holidays too! And although this is technically the end of my 'big summer project', there will be just another couple of photos to come ;) Usually you do a Photo a Day for the month of January, so since I've done that in the past and considering there's only two days left in January, I thought I might as well finish off the month. But I promise, Day 49 will definitely be the last day!

But for now, our boys!