Took Sam to his third football match for his school today. He played  blinder scoring the opening goal, clearing one of theirs off the goal line and wining man of the match.  One of those moments we'll remember forever. On a different subject...

Glad we moved to Hamilton after all the flooding they've had in Tauranga and Papamoa !  I was over there when the rain first came down and I've never seen rain like it. It lasted for hours and was so loud that it was drowning out the noise of the generator on my van. Peoples houses were flooded then there were landslides which wiped out about six homes in Tauranga. They declared a state of emergency and some people were evacuated. Luckily there were no fatalities but they have forcast more heavy rain there for tomorrow night. A quick tip, don't buy a house on the edge of a hill ! Check out www.xtra.co.nz for news on the floods.

Paul