Auckland Santa Parade

Check out our photos from the Santa Parade today in Auckland.

(sunday 30th Nov)

It's been another busy week for The Funky Monkeys!

We have been performing at the Aotea Centre for The Edge School Shows, it happens over 8 days and during that time over 2400 children come along and enjoy the show. Dizzy has been using his particimeter to make sure everyone is participating and we can tell you for sure, they have been. We have also performed at the Porse christmas party in Grey Lynn and Puffing Billy Day Care. Over a thousand students at our show at Papatoetoe Central School danced, sang and clapped along. A huge Hi from The Funky Monkeys to everyone at Papatoetoe Central School - Great Singing!

(friday 28th Nov)

Te Totara Primary School

Te Totara Primary School in Hamilton is the small age of one and we got to attend their celebrations. Check out who also came along and had a photo with Chris!

Hello Cambridge!

This week we had some great shows in Cambridge, we performed shows at the Cambridge Early Centre, Leamington Kindergarten and Cambridge East primary School. We had a little bit of time between shows to relax and check out the amazing trees around town. It's incredible how big some of those trees are and to think once upon a time they would have been small seeds. Amazing!

Happy Birthday Kashin!

Kashin the elephant lives at Auckland Zoo and today we got invited to perform at her 40th birthday party. Kashin looked very pretty and was painted in a traditional Thai style that symbolises a celebration.

After our show we were able to spend time with Kashin and Burma, we even got to feed them sultanas from our hands, which was really cool, their trunks felt like giant vacuum cleaners.

A huge big thank you to Zoo staff for letting us have the special visit!

About Kashin

She arrived at Auckland Zoo in 1972 on a jumbo jet aged four years

her name comes from an ASB naming competition ("cash-in") and she is the elephant on the ASB money boxes

Kashin weighs approximately 3.6 tonne

she loves food, people (especially her keepers), praise and attention

she's not such a big fan of exercise these days, but does love swimming in her pool

TV2 is screening ‘Kashin This Is Your Life' on Sunday 23 November at 7pm

The Royal NZ Show Christchurch!

Our time in Christchurch at the Royal NZ Show was a very busy time for us. We performed 9 shows, gave thousands of badges away, signed lots and lots of collectors cards and met thousands of people. The weather was fantastic! We didn't know what to look at first, there was so much to do! Check out the photo's Dizzy took, he even took one of himself!

Manawatu Show

We had two really fun days performing at the Manawatu Show in Fielding. Check out some of the pictures we took. They had lots and lots of animals there including pigs, really big cats, emu, dogs, cows, ducks, sheep, alpacas and our favourite was the funny donkey that made a lot of noise.

Shirley Muir Kindy

We really enjoyed meeting the children, staff and parents at the Shirley Muir Kindergarten in Hamilton today. We all agreed that it looks like a very fun place and we had a great time performing our special Kindy show.

Family Fireworks Fiesta - Alexandra Park

Wow! we have just seen some incredible fireworks at our show in Auckland. Thanks to everyone that sang and danced during our performance especially during "Apples, Oranges and Bananas" you sounded great!

Carters Kids Gone Fishin Day- Raglan

Here we are with our fishing hero Graeme Sinclair, he knows heaps of amazing information about fish and how to catch them. Thanks to all the children that showed us their catch of the day and a special thanks to our friends from Carters -Your building partner! for inviting us along to perform. (November 1st)