THANKSGIVING

Happy Thanksgiving to all!!!!

We are in the South Island of New Zealand, taking it easy and enjoying the Spring weather despite it making us feel a bit seasonally-challenged. We aren't making turkey this year but instead will take a walk in magnificent Abel Tasman park. We thought that would be a good way to be thankful for our year together as a family on the go.

The kids have wanted to do a post forever! They are having an amazing adventure so far, but they do miss their friends, home, and family and want to share a little with you all.

This post is a school (Scott Family School or SFS) - project for Otis and Lilah. Yesterday they saw a humongous tree being chopped down over our little house and right over our heads. Here is there view of the Big event.

Photos by Lilah ...

Report and photos by Otis:

Today on Tasman street Nelson, NZ your reporter, Otis, experienced kiwi tree trimming. This morning I woke up and heard my dad talking to a neighbor saying that they were cutting down the trees right next to where our car was parked. I got out of bed and walked into the hallway. I looked out of our front window and saw a huge truck outside of the window. During breakfast I looked out of the window and saw a huge crane. After breakfast I went outside and saw a guy with a chainsaw strapped to his leg tying him self on to the hook of the crane. (The top of the crane was seventy feet tall. It could reach fifty-one meters max.) The crane then lifted him up into the tree.

Once in the tree, he tied chains attached to another hook on to a huge piece of tree. Which he then cut off of the tree with his chainsaw. The crane then lowered the piece on to the ground and the other guys with chainsaws cut it up and put it in a wood chipper. The process was repeated many times. On the last one when the guy was lowering it he put part of it on the ground and the part in the air swung towards our fence. At the last moment the crane guy moved it away and it did not crush the fence or me.

An interview with Lilah...

Here are a few other photos from Miss Lilah ...