Easter Weekend is a five day event down here in the Otago region of New Zealand. Like much of Europe, New Zealand takes Friday and Monday off for Easter. Throw in an Otago Anniversary Day holiday celebrated on Tuesday and you get a magnificent five day weekend. Colin, Liam & Doug kicked it off by attending the practice day of the biannual Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow on Friday. The boys saw a lot of planes up close and got to talk to several US Air Force pilots who run the C-130 shuttle flights between Christchurch, NZ, McMurdo Station and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. There were a lot of cool planes, ranging from WWI biplanes to the modern C-17 cargo aircraft, but it was the T-28 Trojan that really excited the boys. Doug's father learned to fly in this plane nearly 50 years ago and it was the first time that Liam & Colin had seen one.
Over 100,000 attended the show this year - not bad for a country of only 4m people (only 1m of which live on the South Island). It seems that everyone & their mother is a pilot down here, so maybe it's not so surprising after all. It was a really good show so if you're thinking of visiting New Zealand in two years, try to time it with a stopover in Wanaka over the five-day Easter weekend.
Vermin count update:
Mice: 3
Rats: 0
Possum: 2
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