I like Mondays

Today is Queen's Birthday proper. In more ways than one: it's mum's birthday too! Happy birthday mum, then.

After a great night's sleep (10 hours, no less), I'm in a brilliant mood to celebrate.

The front-pack fashion turns out to be more sustainable than I thought. So off we go again, to St Heliers this time.

Wrapped and ready, here I come.

Small ears, big hands.

Nice but chilly

B-day girl, oozing pride

Queen's Birthday!

Hurray, a long weekend!

Things started well when dad returned from Asia. A couple of smiles and I had him wrapped around my finger again. This is too easy...

He and I had a bath in the big tub. I'm sure I'll learn to appreciate this in the fullness of time.

Flowers arrived for mum on Saturday morning. Either grand papa and grand maman think that mum likes colourful balloons, or they've been thinking about me. I have a hunch.

I went from fascination...

... to outright enjoyment (pardon the lousy photographer here).

Today was also the day of my first trip to Piha, on the West Coast. Mum was keen to try out the front pack, and boy did she like it. Just look at her!

The black sand is quite something. But then again, I haven't seen any other beach.

I hear these are sand tortoises. Cute, but a bit on the slow side if you ask me.

That's me there, on the right

Classic New Zealand colour scheme here

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

How's that for cool ears?

Thrills aplenty

Late May. The days are getting shorter and colder. But I shan't let this bother me, as there is plenty to do.

Flying to the rescue of my toy koala

Squeezing in a short nap after an exhausting rescue operation

Having a laugh bath

Extracting oneself from a tricky hostage situation. HELP! Someone please do something!

Hanging out with mum's girls

Looking forward to the weekend

Fish, Finn and Friends

Uncle 'The Godfather' Daniel is traveling through Alaska these days

He found this on the road.

I note with satisfaction that Finn is the cool one, with the shades and all. Too right.

Follow Daniel's adventures on www.roadtoalaska.vox.com

Out and about

Met old friends today. Laure, Zao, Noa, and David.

Zao and I graduated from NICU earlier this year

(feels like ages ago to me).

Good opportunity for a family picture, too.

That's me there, in the middle