Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

First of all let us wish you a Merry Christmas! Hope you all had a great time. A post showing our festive antics will follow shortly, but for those of you who can't wait, visit Kt's blog for a wee preview. We are currently preparing for our New Years night out in Wellington, hope you all have a cracking time, whatever you may be up to. We'll keep this short and sweet for now, but will be going post crazy in the New Year to update you all on the last month or so. Best wishes to you all for 2007!!

To the Pinnacles...and beyond!

On a wonderfully sunny Saturday morning, a day trip unfolded…..

Courtesy of Mark and Jillian, Fraser and I found ourselves the guardians of a 6-seater van for 2 weeks. Not ones to miss such an excellent opportunity as this, we planned a day trip with chums (a.k.a. Caz and Kt). We wanted to venture somewhere we’d never been before, combined with a little Lord of the Rings location exploring, so off we went over the beautiful rolling Rimutakas, headed for the Pinnacles!

It took about 2 hours to get there, but the drive was glorious. The radio was playing some ace golden oldies; this combined with the gorgeous sunshine and wonderful scenery had us in great spirits right from the off!
Upon arrival at the Pinnacles we got stuck right into our packed lunches and then planned our route (as there were 3). One of the most fantastic things about the whole experience was that the route we took meant we were hiking up a river bed! Which you can kinda see in some of the pictures below.

Here we are at the start of our journey (and standing in the river bed)...

....and this is Kt and Caz hiking toward the magnificent pinnacles.
This was a much needed recoup half-way up, oh and it's also the start of our 'movie style' b&w photos too.

Here we have a wee 'dare-devil' up in-between a rather precarious pinnacle!...

Also, Fraser found the location used for a scene in "Brain Dead" and so we had to get a picture there.

We also found the location used to film the 'Dimholt road' in the LOTR's and so did our own superb scene there, and a great many others, as every turn we took looked like it was used for filming parts of the movie! There was an absolute peach of a scene that we did, where Frodo and Sam are hiding under Frodo's special cloak by the black gates (so they end up looking like a rock). Fraser came up with a gem of an idea of how to film the soldiers approaching this rock menacingly, but in such a way that we could not identify them...confused? Ah but that's the beauty of it, you'll have to wait and see the finished product! Har har!

On our return leg, back to the car and down from these mystical pinnacles, this was our view...

Gorgeous I think you will agree! It was one of the best days we've had out here (and there have been many of those) as it combined so many things that we all love to do. There is something so special and vibrant about tramping into the wilderness of New Zealand that is hard to explain unless you have done it. So come on guys!...get yourselves out here!

Night out with the girls..feat. Fred

I thought it was about time you saw some silly night out pictures, and in a desperate attempt for those pictures to look stylish rather than urksome, they were taken in sepia - oh yeah...its cowboy time!

So, after a week of hard working, us girls decided enough was enough, and a night of dancing accompanied by a small amount of alcohol was on the cards. Not to mention the fact that an email buddy of Caz's was in town (an Aucklander indeed) so we had to show him and his friend the delights of a night out in Welli.

The evening commenced at la casa Grafton, where wine and beer was free flowing, and J.T was enticing us to cut some rug! I should mention here that Fred was at the boys flat at this point in the evening, soon to join us on Courtney place.

After a taxi and bus ride we found a comfy spot in 'Jet' where we were able to sit nursing our booze and mix between the dance floor and chair boogying! Then to our extreme pleasure and surprise the dj suddenly plonked a bowl of sweets (shaped like jets) in front of us! Fred had joined the motley crew by now and looked on in horror/shame as we flew our jets into one anothers.......

see how he looks on at us in such dismay........ poor boy! Though, in our defence, we had had quite a bit to drink.

A fun night was had by all, as music was good and company was fab, see look........you can even see Fred getting into the spirit of the sepia night now too!

Sepia rules!