Wellington again!

Hi all!

Sorry it's been a while! So... what've we been up to. Let's see if I can remember.

We moved into Anne and Ian's house as mentioned. They're fantastic, and completely spoiling us! So much so that they might never get rid of us.

We spent a few more days in Wellington. I took James to his first ever karate class. It was the first one back for the club after xmas and so they decided to make it a real killer. The boy done good - we must have done over 3000 punches/blocks at the start interspersed with sit ups/push ups etc and then some fighting at the end and he didn't get put off at all. So we'll probably be going back again tonight. On Saturday, Anne very kindly took us for a drive around Wellington and up to some viewpoints and then bought us a lovely breakfast. See... we're being spoilt rotten... so we got our bearings and saw lots of gorgeous views of the city.

On Sunday we headed over to the South Island to go and stay in the Bach (wooden house type thing) with Ian, Anne's husband, who had been there for the last month or so. The scenery there was absolutely stunning, and it was nice just to sit and take it all in without having to do anything! At Ian't suggestion we went out diving for a day. The water was a chilly 16 degrees and we were both wearing semi-dry suits, with a full hood and gloves. It made us look like US navy seals! The suits were pretty much brand new, so no leaks (YES!) and we were snug in the water. As we'd both anticipated freezing to death this was a welcome surprise! Ian came along with us on the boat, and at one point was the only man on deck, prompting him to ring Anne and tell her that he was skipper! We had a dive in a marine reserve, teeming with curious Blue Cod that came and nibbled our fingers, and another dive on the wreck of the Koi. Good fun. We're hoping to go back and dive the wreck of the Mikhail Lermentov in the near future.

What else... We went into Blenheim for a look around. Ummm can't remember... Came back with Ian to Wellington yesterday. Currently we're looking at ways to get up to Auckland and when we should go so we can meet Tomek on the 1st. Hope all is well at home!

Oh yeah.. Happy (belated) birthday Dan! And HI Gran!

Katy xx