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Been a while since our last journal entry. We've been pretty busy at the resort over Christmas period and January too. On our days off we have been enjoying the New Zealand summer sunshine (occassionally in liquid form!), by spending long lazy days on nearby beaches having picnics, swimming in the sea & sipping the odd cocktail or two.
We caught up with Nigel & Jackie from the De Vere in Southampton at the end of November. There were loads of stories to be exchanged over enormous amounts of pizza & (as our heads told us the next day) allot of Malborough Sauv. It was really surreal seeing them both on the other side of the world! We had a great night!
Christmas day was sooo hot - 29 degrees! We served 120 people Christmas lunch & then did a very quick turn around for dinner. There was a fantastic atmosphere around the resort with everyone being very festive & jolly. At the end of the day we went home to a delicious Christmas dinner of our own! We had fried eggs on toast with a bottle of cheap sparkling wine. Boxing day we spent down on Lawrence road beach sipping gin & tonic cocktails, swimming and playing backgammon - it was my intention to have Christmas on the beach with cocktails and I wasn't disappointed!
For my birthday we went wine touring with Amanda. We had saved around $150 in tips, so the pressure was on to buy a bottle of wine from each cellar door we went to. Tasting around six wines at each cellar door we were all pretty merry by lunch time, and enjoyed a platter to share between the three of us. We still had the arduous task of going to another three cellar doors after lunch and enduring a 15 minute boat ride on quite choppy water back to the Portage. We all had an excellent day!
Shortly before that we moved into a new house with Amanda & Don Julio (her dog). Its a three bedroom place and our room has an ensuite. Between Amanda & I we have a huge veggie garden now! We had a king size stick insect on our balcony the other day and it was king scary!! Fat lazy possums can't seemed to be bothered to drag themselves up to our new house so we don't see so many anymore although they still seem able to have a good old poo in our fresh water tanks from time to time. At least we think it's the possums.
With the coming of the hotter weather so have bugs the size of large cats. Pete makes endless unwitty remarks about which character off stargate SG1 they remind him of. We reckon when New Zealand was made a bit too much of the old falling down water was drunk one afternoon and they had a 'make the ugliest creature' competition for a bit of a laugh and were not talking about the maori! It's not just the size of them either it's the noise they make aswell.
We have 10 weeks left in our contract now, and are already planning the next stages. Time here as flown by, but the Malborough Sounds are such an amazing part of the world! We can't wait to see what the rest of the South Island has to offer us.
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