Hugo's birthday

Beep beep beep!
My heart pounds as I feel I'm forgetting about something special to do with family.
Bring bring!
I answer the phone. It sounds low so I guess that it is Grandad.
"Hey guess who I talked to this morning."
I think and think and think and think. My brains feels like it is starting to blow up .I just ask who. Who exactly?
HUGO! Don't you remember?
Remember what?
Its Hugo's birthday today.
Oh yeah ... 1st birthday and we forgot!
Can I talk to mum?
Yep sure!
I stumble and race to give mum the phone. I rip up some paper, write something ... nope not good enough . Look I found a cute nursery rhyme book and CD. This is perfect.

Gondalas and luge in Queenstown

Up, up and away as we sit in these gondolas and look down at the humongous hill that we are creeping up.

The hill gets steeper and steeper.
I get worried, thinking in my head that I will be luging down this huge hill. When we get up there I realise that we will be luging down the tip of it.
Because we get out of the gondalas and hop straight onto the chair lift and go to the tippy top of the hill. We get our helmets and up we go. We hop of the chair lift and we go over the bridge and grab a luge, test our brakes and off we go.
We go under the bridge, round 6 corners, through 2 tunnels and then into the hole at the end. It took about 5-6 minutes and it was lots of  fun.

Ice skating in Queenstown

Mum. Wow! Look at this. They fit perfectly. Mum can i have a penguin? No Can I have this then? No. Stop asking for things. OK. My words sound like a stutter.
Ok I'm on ice. Why isn't it cracking? That is probably the whole point of ice skating ... you are skating on ice. Who do you think I will crash into first if i do.
I will start of by going round the rink a couple of times then I will try to go backwards. Well I will figure out how to.
I watch these girls flowing backwards like a swan.
Here comes Hannah prancing round looking like she's trying to be an exsplosive.
Half an hour later.
Mum look! I can do it gracefully now!
Sort of mum mumbles to herself.
Yeah sort of . How do those people do it so gracefully!

On the plane

The noise was increasing on the plane and we got passed disgusting town water. 
I got given a lolly pop and a magazine.
I read it all the way to Queenstown! It took about 2 hours and I also got given a cookie with it.
It was blueberry and it had ginger on it.
I looked out the window and all I could see was big puffy clouds; all snowy and white.
We looked out the windows when we were half way there and we saw the Remarkable Mountains.
There was a little bit of snow on them.