The weeks that were

Life in Wellington is as great as ever and we've been real busy over the last couple of weeks. Laura had an interview with the Ministry of Education Special Needs section and......she got a job! She's working in a kindergarten 2 hours every morning with a young somalian boy and she says he is beautiful. It's really great that she has a job in this line of work as she needs experience working with kids to get onto a course when we return home so Well Done her, now she's just trying to find a job for the afternoon as well. My job at the Police is coming to an end on Friday and I've been looking for another job, although not too enthusiastically I must add.
Have decided to take the next week off and be a man of leisure as we're going skiing on Sunday. We booked a Log Cabin up north at Mount Ruapehu, or Mount Doom for you LOTR fans, and 9 of us will descend on the slopes for some not so graceful skiing and snowboarding. It's Laura's birthday on Monday so we have coincided the trip with that and are all looking forward to it so should have a rocking time. Kt has returned to Welli and we helped her move in to her new pad (which you can see if you visit her blog, the link is on the right) and it is great to have her back. We (Kt, Laura, Elaine, Rhys and I) finished 3rd and 4th in a couple of pub quizzes and scooped a $40 bar tab for 3rd spot, that got us a couple of bottles of wine and some sore heads. In other news, I caught a fever last week......a faver for karaoke that is! Had a leaving do for someone at work and it was at a karaoke joint, what a riot. Did 5 tunes in total; Maggie May, Raindrops keep Falling on my head, Hotel California, Leaving on a Jet plane and Suspicious Minds, i think i was pretty terrible but had a great time anyway.
We now have a nice, chilled Sunday routine of afternoon Jazz at the Hummingbird (accompanied by a couple of amazing vodkas for me) and, when she's on, seeing Elaine play in the evening. You can find a link to her site on the right as well, check it out as she has a couple of tunes uploaded and she is an amazing singer/songwriter.
Laura and Kt have Salsa dancing tonight so I've got the place to myself, an evening of junk food and Rockstar Supernova methinks, superb. We will try and email you all soon and are also in the process of getting a phoneline installed so will let you know the number when it's all done. Hope you're all well, bye for now!