Spring time, Birthdays and a Trip to Melbourne!

Kia ora tātou!

Well I’ll start off from where I left it... Tracey and Lisa back home from England for a short winter visit…. so it was time to do some skiing! This time the ski trip was mainly based at Cardrona, a change of scene for us Young ones rather than the usual Treble Cone. Tracey and I, the great puzzle lovers, sought out a puzzle in Wanaka at Puzzling World, something to keep us entertained, especially Tracey near the end... It was a bit too hard for me! While the four of us were down in Wanaka Peanut (our cat) held the fort at home... well at least we thought that's what he was doing, but when we are gone, Peanut lives in the laps of luxury at our neighbour, Steph’s house getting much better food than cat food and a lot of love we suspect! Peanut has two homes you could say! Thank you Steph! We then had a trip up to Christchurch to say goodbye to Tracey and Lisa and see the doctor. While Kate had a few ski days at Ohau and Treble Cone.

While in Christchurch I finally managed to catch up with the one and the only, that famous girl CHEESE and her sisters! I'd like to point out that Cheese, AKA Sarah, has been a rock for me this year! The postcards, her phone calls and her txts are wonderful! Right now she is in Rome so I know she’ll be having a great time and some magnificent experiences. You’re a champ Cheese!

After seeing the Dr in Christchurch it was decided that we would go to Melbourne for another PET scan. From that scan I got another set of amazingly, exciting, jump up and down kind of news, I heard that my tumour had not taken up any of the tracer in my PET scan which means that it is metabolically inactive! Yahoo! We are now thinking about the next step. Very hard decisions!

We went to Wanaka for another ski week and some relaxation. I managed to go for a bike ride with Dad which was exciting for me to get back on my bike and go for a ride. We all had about four days skiing at Treble Cone the snow wasn't heaven every day but we did manage to get some days that were a lot of fun! It was great being able to spend time with some of the Feaseys on the mountain and off the mountain. We met a good friend, Chris in Queenstown on Kate's birthday and had lunch with him. The highlight for Kate of this trip was buying some new very PHAT skis!

We had another trip to Christchurch for Dads work and for me to go to the doctor for a rash on my legs. Finally I've managed to get rid of the rash that was driving me insane so I have had a spa!

On my ***18th*** birthday I went down to watch some rowing at Lake Ruataniwha, I was on a buzz down there catching up with all my rowing mates and watching them row. This was inspiring me to get back on the water sometime in the future. In the evening I went, with Kate, to the basketball party that was held at the Pukaki Lounge/pub. There was a great band playing, some of which I knew from working in Twizel last summer. When they found out it was my birthday the band and whole Lounge sang happy birthday to me, embarrassing but very special! Thanks Sam and Michael and all those that sang along!  It was a great party with some very OARSUM music! Rock on!

In between trips away I have managed to get into school a couple of times a week doing some art. Mum and I might be back up to Christchurch so I can see a friend of mine compete in a Trampolining competition which would be exciting to see!
I'll load some photos in the next few days. So there's the update on the Youngs adventures I’d love to hear some of your adventures so leave me a Blog.

Aroha nui

Sara and family