Flat Claire and Flat Sonnie

July 2013

Have a look at Flat Ffion's page for my (Flat Claire's) latest adventure with Flat Ffion- we went with one of our favorite teachers all the way to Wales and then to Russia. What and adventure we've had!

February 2013

Hi reader!

My name is Flat Claire and I am from Auckland. I have a mum, dad, Nan, Grandad, uncles, cousins and lots of friends. Lots of my family is from England.

I also cannot forget my animals. It is true. I have got a cat and a rabbit. I had two rabbits  but my rabbit Buttercup died. Now I have my rabbit Daisy and my cat Inky. My cat Inky is black and my rabbit Daisy is white. My two fish also died.

My favourite foods are ice cream and chocolate, pizza, fish and chips and there are lots more food I like. I love dancing and tag is my favourite game.

March 2013

Flat Claire's first visit was to her home where she enjoyed taking photos of  her rabbit..and then on to the school playground with her friend Abbie.

This is my rabbit Daisy-Bell with Flat Claire.  I LOVE BUNNIES!!!!

Above is Flat Claire in the playground at school. The playground is fun!

IN THIS PHOTO I WAS GOING TO DANCING WITH ABBIE.

I like dancing because you can move lots.

AND I LIKE ABBIE TOO.


April 2013
Flat Claire went to England...look what she got up to there! 

 Flat Claire going for a ride around Chelmsford EssexUK

 Flat Claire in hot tub!!

Flat Claire in UK in cinema room!

  Flat Claire with cousin phoebe and her friend Ella playing!










This is actually Flat Claire being posted back to NZ!


This is Flat Sonnie who I share my blog page with.

August 2013

Well Flat Sonnie and Flat Jasmine have just been taken on a trip to the Phillippines with one of their teachers!

Kumusta from the Philippines.

it has been an extremely long trip for Flat Sonnie and Flat Jasmine!  Firstly we flew from Auckland to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.  Luckily we were travelling business class so slept nearly the whole 10 hour 40 minute flight.

Check out our seats:

Kuala Lumpur is the capital city of Malaysia and also the most populous city in Malaysia.  There are around 1.6million people living in the city which covers 243 km² .  Auckland is 4.5 times larger and has a population around 1.4 million.

Then we had a 3 hour transit (wait between flights) then flew on to Manila in the Philippines.  This flight was nearly 4 hours. Manila is the capital city of the Philippines and is the most densely populated city in the world with 43,079 inhabitants per km²!

Check out our route:

After hanging out in the Malaysian Airlines lounge at Manila for several hours Flat Sonnie and Flat Jasmine were getting very bored and tired.  There was still another flight from Manila to Cebu to come, and we were very annoyed when we found out our flight had been delayed a second time.  Eventually we caught our flight at 7pm (was supposed to be 5pm).

Finally after more than 24 hours of travelling and transiting we made it to Cebu.

The province of Cebu is a narrow strip of land, approximately 200 km long and 40 km across at its widest.  It is made up of Cebu Island and then another 167 smaller islands.

We couldn't wait to get to the hotel in Cebu.  We are staying at the Shangri-La.  Remember we are part of the Ironman Group, and this hotel will be filled with lots of athletes over the next couple of days.  Being driven to the hotel was an eye-opener.  There is a lot of tooting, cars being over-taken and under-taken, narrow roads and no road markings!  It's quite scary!  There are people walking around the streets, food stalls roadside (we won't be eating from them), lots of small sheds (houses) made from a patchwork of iron - we'll get some photos of that in daylight.  It looks like a very, very poor place, but then there's a beautiful hotel in amongst it all ... and that's where we are staying.

Upon arrival we were greeted by a beautiful Filipina woman.  She wore the official national costume, the baro at saya (= baro't saya). The baro is the top blouse. The saya is the skirt.  

Then we were shown to our room.   

There are lots of beautiful flower arrangements in the hotel and our room.  Flat Sonnie and Flat Jasmine particularly liked this one.

For lunch we dined in our room.  Flat Sonnie enjoyed a Veal Bratwurst and Flat Jasmine some club sandwiches - not very filipino at all!

Later today we will head to the Ironman registration, photos to follow.

Paalam na for now.

Flat Sonnie and Flat Jasmine

Magandang hapon (good afternoon) from the Shangri-La Resort

After a good night's sleep with the air con on low, we woke refreshed and ready to enjoy another hot day.  The temperature here is 32 degrees celsius and 80% humidity ... yes it's like being in a sauna!  Flat Sonnie and Flat Jasmine are pleased they will only be spectators at Sunday's Half Ironman Triathlon event and not competing!

This morning Flat Sonnie and Flat Jasmine hit the beach at the resort.  It's a beautiful beach and the water is a balmy 28 degrees celsius - not exactly refreshing!  It's the same temperature as the swimming pool at Lloyd Elsmore.  There are lots of colourful, stripy fish swimming around us - like in the movie Nemo.

Check out the Shangri-La Resort Beach:

Mrs Brown and Flat Sonnie and Flat Jasmine about to get into their togs and hit the beach!

 Flat Jasmine loving the resort beach and the frangipani flowers.

Flat Sonnie thinks the filipino boats are kind of weird.

Later in the afternoon it was time for Cameron Brown to register and get his race pack for the 70.3 Ironman Philippines triathlon.  There are more than 2,000 athletes taking part in the event, which consists of a 2km swim, 90km cycle and 21km run.  There is a star-studded professional field of more than 20 men, including current World Champion Pete Jacobs, and two-time World Champion Chris McCormick to name a couple.  The women's field is not nearly as strong, with only 6 pro women - maybe we should enter, we might make a few dollars!

Flat Sonnie and Flat Jasmine enjoyed a photo with Cameron Brown.  Can you spot us?

So, it's paalam from us.

Flat Sonnie and Flat Jasmine.

March 2013

Flat Sonnie's first visit was to her home to take photos of her favourite places at home..

This is my piano. I like to play the piano. I play piano everyday. Playing piano is fun.

 This is my favorite toy. because it is cute.

Her name is Bear Rabbit because she  

is a bear but if she put her hat on she

                                         looks like a rabbit.