Hey Broton Family!
Its been a fun weekend, after our night of playing ukuleles and trying L&P, our new friend Tash took us home to hang out with her for the weekend.
On Saturday we went to the mall to go shopping!

We saw lots of clothes and toys, all sorts of stuff to spend our money on! We ended up leaving empty handed tho, but it was still a lot of fun!
Then after shopping we decided to go to the beach 'cause it was really hot and muggy! It was a great way to cool off and end the day   

                            

We could even see Rangitoto Island from the beach! We took a photo pretending we were standing on the top hehe.
                              
We found out that Rangitoto Island is actually a volcano! Lots of people like to take the ferry boat over to the island to climb all the way to the top!
                              

If you want to learn any more about Rangitoto, you should look at this website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangitoto_Island

Having lots of fun in New Zealand, miss you very much!
Love from the flat Broton family

Hi Broton Family,
On Friday night, we were supposed to be going to the park with the youth group which would’ve been fun! However the weather had other plans, and in our part of Auckland there was TORRENTIAL rain, that didn’t stop for hours, and even caused some flash flooding that made the top of the late night news that night!! So obviously, the park didn’t happen! Instead we did this…

We learnt to play the ukeleles with all the teenagers, and man did it make a racket!! We played a whole bunch of songs, and even tried strumming with our feet (just us, not the teenagers hehe). It was pretty fun!

We also explored the space the youth hang out in every week, like reading their comic book wall, and drawing on the chalkboard wall.

We even played a game of pool, and meet the youth group mascot “Freddie the spider”.

The best thing of the night was trying some “L&P” New Zealands very own fizzy drink (as the label says “world famous in New Zealand since ages ago”.

 Its called L&P because that stands for Lemon and Paeroa. Paeroa is the town its made in, and kind of is like the cover up for whatever the secret ingredient is. Its pretty yummy, we wish we could bring some home to let you try it!

Will update again soon,

Love the Flat Broton Family

Our trip to Auckland

Hi Broton family,

Well we've had an exciting week, and travelled up the country to Auckland (That's New Zealands biggest city). We're staying with Melissa and her youth group (she's a youth pastor you see), although we're still waiting to meet the youth (we got here too late to meet them last week!). You should've seen Melissa's face when she opened the envelope we travelled in, she was so excited!
We havent gotten any photos done yet, its been a funny old week around here, but we're excited about some of the plans for the next week, so you'll have to watch this space!!
Cant wait to meet more people and share our adventures with you! Think of you lots, miss you heaps

Love from the Flat Broton Family xoxoxo