Life seems to be chugging on very quickly towards Christmas. We have booked some tickets back to New Zealand at Christmas which we are all looking forward to. Carl has one more tour to PNG before year end though so still a fare amount of work to get through both on the home and work fronts before we can kick back for a bit.

Attached a couple of recent photos - Millie performing as the "cat and the fiddle' in her school assembly item and then dancing with her classmates and then Poppy hanging out in a tree at the airport with her friends Betsy and Marian while we wait for Dad to get off the plane.

We're heading out to the Western Province next week for 4 days - will take an hour flight and 20 minute boat ride to get to small Island called Lola Island in the middle of a large Lagoon area. Is meant to be beautiful so will fill you in when we get back. Havent told the kids so they will just get out of bed one morning, told not to put on their school uniforms but get ready to go on a plane!!! Should be a cool surprise.