Link to our photos

Hey everyone. Here is the link for our pictures. It's on Snapfish and so you have to register but it's quick and easy! Enjoy, more are soon to come!

http://www4.snapfish.co.nz/share/p=904151192486170123/l=231783175/g=105691904/cobrandOid=1025/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB

Update

To be completely honest, I am posting for the sake of posting--not because some out of the ordinary, ridiculous thing has happened; parents, I'm sure this is not upsetting news for you! We have started to acclamate ourselves, our lives with those of Wellington. We work, we live, we "recreate" (not a word, but basically gets the thought across)with the best of the Kiwis. We each have two part time jobs, one restaurant for the evenings and one cafe a couple days a week. I feel pretty fortunate that I enjoy both my jobs. They are nice to me, they are both laid-back environments, and they both feed me, for free. We still seem to have a lot of free time, and those hours are spent relaxing at the hostel with each other, with our new friends, playing frisbee outside, climbing Mt. Victoria, rock-climbing, walking around the city, going to one of the 18 million cafes, reading, writing, listening to music, going to museums, walking at the harbour, going to the beach or anything else we can think of. Our lives here are so relaxed. Parents, more specifically mine, do not be alarmed when you read this because we are aware that this is a temporary living situation for us, but we are loving not having the responsibilities of home lurking around each corner, each morning when we wake up, each evening when we are trying to rest; no school worries, no work worries, no personal worries. We are mello, at least I am more mello than I have been in a very long time. I think that this has been a long-deserved break from the past years of continuous education and the bombarding of the sometimes useless information upon our minds. We are now pupils of a different school. The one of independence, choosing completely on one's own, judging of character, approaching new sitiuations and people with open minds and open hearts. We are each hoping to come home to you all improved-- with a new sense of self and mind and heart, and most importantly, with a renewed sense of the lives we lead and what we want from them.

The Little Mermaid

Interesting things continue to happen! The other day, Mary K and one of our friends from the backpackers were hanging out down at the harbor. They were sitting down there for a probably half an hour, and to get to the exact spot where they were, Mary K had to step over a gap in the beams that seperated her from the ice cold water about ten feet below. All was well when they arrived; however, the problem occured when Mary K failed to remember half an hour later to step over the gap in the beams so as to not fall in. Needless to say, our friend said that they heard a "bloop" sound, turned around and Mary K was nowhere to be found. They looked over and so her head bobbing out of the water, laughing. Yes, she fell about ten feet, through a space about one cubic foot or less, into ice cold Wellington harbor water. RIDICULOUS. She had to doggy paddle to the closest ladder to get out of the water. She is completely soaking wet, freezing cold, loses everything in her pockets, including her wallet, and has to take a taxi back to the backpackers, where the cab driver tries to charge them an outrageous amount because Mary K got his cab all wet...She arrives and Fred and I just could not believe our eyes or are ears, the story was just too outrageous to believe at first. Eventually word spread through Rosemere and Mary K is now known as Wellington's Mermaid. Now we have S***-face Khoury, Wellington's Mermaid, let's see what's going to happen to Fred; she's had a good laugh at our expense and what goes around comes around :-) Alright, I'm running out of internet time, so I will continue this again!

Good things come to those who wait

Okay, so here's the deal, it will take absolutely forever to upload all the pictures we want you to see on to this blog (they do not make it efficient for people), so I am going to open a snapfish account, and post the link so that anyone with the site will be able to access our pictures at any time! We think this is the best idea, so just be a little more patient and it will all be worth it!