Monte Cecelia Park, Auckland

Today is ANZAC day and although as a family we remember the soldiers that fought for us in our own way we didn't actually head out to any dawn services (unless you count the 'dawn' service Leah woke Mr. Man up for at 4am!).  I actually might put attending a dawn service on my next years 'list'. Both my grandfathers were servicemen and one of them fought in Egypt in WW2 I believe, so I might even be able to rustle up some medals to wear.

Being a public holiday, and beautiful weather, we thought it would be a good idea to get out and about.  I had had Monte Cecelia Park on my list of places to explore for some time but things just kept getting in the way and we weren't sure if we could take dogs there, which kept slowing our plans. But after a quick search on the internet this morning that showed a photo of a dog in the park we were off.

What a beautiful place!  It's huge and has many beautiful large trees.  Great place to walk to dog and has heaps of walking,/jogging/biking tracks and great scenery. We even got to see some war planes flying about, possibly from some kind of service.  The Pah house which is situated in the park was built in the late 1800s and used to be an orphanage and school (Mr. Man told me after reading a plaque).

Here are a few photos of our morning <3

 And how idyllic.  We got to see a little white tailed rabbit skip along the luscious grass!

Little miss had a wonderful time crunching in the leaves...

...and eating them.

We're one of those horrible families that actually let our dog have a good time when we go for a walk!

Mummy never gets to be in 'family' shots.  Must train that dog to take photos....

And my favourite snaps of the day were a cheeky bubba trying to steal daddy's hat.