On Sept 16th I drove to Christchurch at 6 am to pick up my mother who was arriving for a 10 day visit. She could not have timed the visit better with the gorgeous spring weather - usually bad weather follows my mother, but not on this trip. We drove straight back to Timaru after collecting her bags and skis and stopping for a quick coffee in Dunsandel. Day 1 - stopped by Mountainview School to show her the campus and collect Sydney (but Sydney had already finished her exam and left), came home to greet the boys when they came home for lunch, saw Syd briefly before she had to go back for another exam, got Gregg for lunch and went to Blue Bay, took a walk along the ocean, and the Caroline Bay area,
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