Voila! Mom & Me Only. Céline’s clothing label I mentioned earlier this year that I’ve been anxious to share:

Unable to find t-shirts for her growing belly while pregnant with her second child, Céline came up with a clever design of her own: written on the belly of each shirt in French or English are tender loving messages between mother and child for each month of the pregnancy beginning from three months. The t-shirts come in five different colours (black, white, gray, pink and brown) with short or three quarter sleeve lengths. Her website isn’t ready yet but you can purchase the French inscribed t-shirts here and here. I am especially inspired that she went from having an idea and then making it a reality. That’s a lot of work!

I’m like a fortnight behind in my posting because we’ve had limited internet time. We’re now in Brisbane but I have yet to show pics from our time in Sydney. I’ll think I’ll just post random pics.

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Back to Queenstown again for a tour of where some of the scenes for the movie were shot for The Lord of the Rings. Before venturing out we feasted like hobbits eating our curds and whey and making a terrible orc mess. There were no singing and dancing on the tables afterwards however; that was taken care of with a cup of hot chocolate beforehand and there’s no place like New Zealand for making them the way I like it: silky froth and melt in your mouth marshmallows (I’ll post more pics of hot chocolate drinks I got drunk over). Meanwhile I leave you with some of the images from our tour. See if you can recognise them from the movie:

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We spent a couple days in Queenstown then went to Te Anau and from there to Milford Sounds. It rained the day we went to Milford Sounds but we were told that we had good weather for visiting because when it rains the water falls (we wished we weren’t so much in the clouds though). On the way there we stopped for a tea break and as I don’t drink tea or coffee had hot water with a bit of sugar. It was the best drink ever. The water is SO delicious in this part of the country. Apparently you can drink the water straight from the lakes. Here are some pics of Christian at the front of the boat about to taste some himself.

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On our way back from visiting Lake Wanaka we dropped in and visited an old goldmine village. We chose to save some money and not to do the tour; and I chose not to read any of the information posts along the path being too engaged in getting good shots to think about anything else so I’m not sure what this place was about really other than it was a treasure trove for location scouting.

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