A taste of home

Once again, the Kangabarrons had a nice cruisy weekend.
On Saturday Karleen, Trinity, Patience, Ethan,Maddisyn and I went to Freemantle where there was a big fair thingy on to celebrate New Zealand Day, which in actual fact, is what we call Waitangi Day back home. Funny thing is that there were even New Zealand day t-shirts being sold. Now I know that Waitangi Day is sort of NZs official day but the Aussies celebrate this day with us here. Well I think its weird anyway.
The day started with a powhiri (maori opening) and the the stage had a variety of performers throughout the day, as you do. There were a bunch of stalls selling a variety of NZ food and maori stuff as well as a heap of bouncy castles, pony rides, a big rock climbing thingy, little ride around jeeps and even Old McDonald's farm joined in the celebrations.
Karleen and I ordered us a bunch of hangis and then sat down and munched on steamed pudding (with peaches and whipped cream yum yum) and whatever else we could get our hands on. I bought Andrew a large framed photo of the All Blacks with the Bledisloe cup and we had heaps of fun watching this wonderful maori group perform. Even the kids sat down at the front and watched the haka in awe. It was so exhilarating. It was nice to immerse myself in a bit of my culture for a while. We finished off the day letting the kids ride and drive and bounce. Needless to say that they were asleep 10 mins into our ride home. Have got photos and will post as soon as possible.
Got home and we waited for our husbands to come home after their day of fishing. Andrew bought home a shark and a squid that Dave Doyle had caught YUCK!!
Saturday we went to the markets with my bro Hopa, about 40mins from home. Man it was massive! we even had to catch a bus from the car park. We left with an assortment of stuff, but more importantly, a baby budgie for Kaytlynn. Managed to talk Maddy out of a goldfish and a rabbit WHEW