Hello everyone, hope you are all well. We are both fine, still working away in our jobs.

We have had some really nice weather the last few days, it is still really cold but the sun has been shining this week, which is lovely, and have been able to go for long walks on the beach wrapped up in our scarves and hats! There has been a lot of snow further south, and we are expecting the closest ski field to open in 2 weeks, so will book some time off work then.

I think we are going to go to the indoor ski place this weekend and get some practice in, provided Mark’s old knees are up to it! We always end up being rubbish for the first couple of days when we are out of practice!!

Last weekend we went to another free rugby match from work, this time it was Auckland versus another local team from Hamilton ( about an hour south of here), it was quite an important match for Auckland which they won, so it was a lovely atmosphere. We even treated ourselves to a few pints in the Irish pub afterwards! The buses are free when you have a match ticket so we could get around easily afterwards.

This afternoon we are off to lunch in town ( Mark always meets me on saturday afternoons after work) then probably a bit of a rest back home. Not much excitement today. I got an $11.74 refund ( about 4 pounds!) today which is about as exciting as it gets this week! Let me know what you have all been up to!

love from the kiwis
xoxo

when it rains it pours…

Finally pictures of our little house and other random Auckland pictures please click *here* !!

Hallo again,

Just loaded a few more piccies on here if you fancy a nosy. Mostly baby pics, as my mum has sent us some more photos ( yes she does love photos!!) also I have put on a picture of my new blonde hair.

Decided one rainy Sunday afternoon to bleach it! Was not much fun and had to have orange/green hair for two weeks to rest it until the hairdresser would do it properly! And no I will never learn before you ask! Still a bit orange at the front but that will come out the next time I get it done.

Auntie Beryl – new job is good thanks, I am still enjoying it. They have given me some training here, still no word as to when they will send me to Sydney. I am starting to think that was something they told me at interview just to make me start!
Mark starts at 6 but finishes at 4pm, so is usually fast asleep on the sofa when I get home at 7.30pm!! I do get Fridays off as well as Saturday afternoon and Sunday so I don’t mind really.

The house on the pictures is the backpackers where we were staying. I have taken pictures of our new house but someone (ahem ..Mark) has lost the cable to connect it to the pc, so at the moment I can’t load them. Hopefully I will get to put them on a disk soon.

The weather is now really cold, we have had some snow in the North island, and lots of snow in the South island, and we are itching for a ski soon, just waiting for the snow to really build up and then we will be off!

We are going to a comedy festival tonight and then there is a sausage festival in Aotea square, so hopefully will get a few sausages for tea!! Tomorrow I am meeting up with friends from my last job for lunch, then Mark and I will be off to the cinema I think. We are on an alcohol detox this month and are trying really hard not to have anything, as it feels like that is all we have done for the past 9 months!!

Other than that I havent got much news I afraid, we are both quite homesick still, and I like to read the bbc website every week to keep me up to date! If anyone fancies sending us some teabags again I would be grateful!! I will pay for them!! ( 33 Richmond Avenue, Northcote, Auckland, NZ)

***Perhaps not you Laura, as you nearly gave yourself a heat attack last time, naughty smuggler that she is wrote ’soft toy’ on the envelope when it was tea bags in, then got worried about being arrested as a drug dealer when the xray the bag hehe!!***

Hope you all ok, lots of love from team kiwi!