2 Month Catch Up.

Sorry I haven't been on here for a while and updated the blog with all our news from sunny NZ. Things have been pretty hectic over here since January, the weather has been constantly great so we've found that all our free time has been spent in the great outdoors exploring the sights of this country (and getting a nice tan!) I've heard that the weather back in the UK has been pretty poor.

So here's a quick catch up of what we've been getting up to since I last posted anything on here..... At the end of Jan Cherry, Gary and Bill flew out to stay with us. They stayed with us for a few days then, along with Charlie, they did a week of road tripping around North Island before coming back to stay with us for another 4 days before flying back. They all had a great time and it was good to have them all here. They can't wait to come back again.
Charlie has now turned 11 and the day after his birthday he started at Intermediate School - big difference than primary but he is slowly getting used to it now. He had his new best mate over for a sleepover on saturday and they didn't get to sleep until 1235am sat night/sun morn!

Just some of the things that we've been getting up to over the last coupleof months in our spare time include Tramping on the Coromandel peninsula, going to Rainbows End theme park, taking the ferry to Rangitoto (Aucklands youngest volcano) then climbing to the summit and all around the island, going to Kelly tarltons underwater world to say hello to the sharks, going up the sky tower, a 90km bike ride out to Port Waikato and some more tramping in the Hunua range on a couple of routes that we hadn't done before. Charlie has still been busy with his swmming training and various galas - he also made it to zone day to represent his school against schools in the county, Hayley has still been constantly running and got a good time of 1 hr 43 mns in the Pukekohe half marathon despite the heat and I've still been trying to keep myself fit with cycling, running or walking between juggling my body clock with the shift work.

Obviously around all the fun we have to fit in time to work. Hayley has settled really well into her part time job, the hours fit great with our lifestyle. I have almost finished my PA (like a trial period) - I've only got one more thing left to complete before its all done. The work is great, busy but fun. Very different than policing in the UK (for those of you that I've spoken to by phone or email I'm sure you're getting the picture by now!) We are looking at a move further south once my trial is complete - we're hoping to look at moving somewhere between Aug - Nov time.

Well, Easter is almost upon us - I've been out here in NZ for almost 8 months now and Hayley & Charlie have been here for 5 months already. We're heading off on a camping trip for Easter to Rotorua so we'll put some snaps of our travels on here and an update of how it goes.

Hayley has been putting all our pictures onto the flickr website as its a great way to display all our pics - she's separated them up into sets so they are fairly easy to view. She'll keep doing that. You can visit the site at www.flickr.com/photos/hayleymarsh/
We are also both on facebook now too so thats another way to easily keep in touch.

Ok thats all for now - sorry its taken so long to update but we'll keep it back on track now.

All of us are loving it in kiwiland so far. There seems to be no let up to the summer at the moment, temperatures have hit the 30's with most days still around 25 degs at the moment. Awesome!