Rose & Thorn Abroad

A good looking bunch together for the first time in 5 years. Happy birthday Sis!

  We've Arrived!!! 38 hours and three flights after we set off from the hotel in Heathrow Terminal 4 we finally arrived in Invercargill in the south of New Zealand's South Island.  Met by brother-in-law Paul who gave us the keys to the car and we headed to our AirBnB hideout for two nights.  So far we had managed to keep off the radar and no-one else figured out we were coming over to surprise my sister at her 50th. We spent the first day getting over the flights and laying low.  On Saturday morning had a lovely walk on, an admittedly cool, Oreti beach. We then headed up to Gore, grabbed a flat white at Howl at the Moon and got word from Paul that we were good to come up to the house.  Sarah spotted the car as we arrived and thought it was a friend dropping it off after it had been in for recall on a brake sensor.  I thought she was going fall over when she saw who it was!!!  Mission complete, she was totally surprised.  It was a bloody ...