January, 2007

The sun is shining in Wellingtown, and I've just been for an hour long bike ride. Tim is at the gym (nice rhyme!) and its a public holiday today...... so, a perfect time to start a blog. I thought 'Thoughts from Fi' was a bit cheesy for the blog title, but couldn't think of anything else at the time so I guess I'm stuck with it for now :D hopefully my army of loyal fans out there won't mind too much.

Anyway, this January has involved lots of travelling around the place. We've been to Greytown for New Years eve, Sydney, and the Hunter Valley in Australia. We got back last Thursday at midnight, and I'm heading off again tomorrow for Christchurch (I'll be spending a week down there, visiting friends and whanau).

Greytown was heaps of fun. We got to hang out with Tim's sister, Sarah, and her husband, Brian. They had come over from San Francisco to visit for Christmas and New Year's. Heaps of fun times followed, included an evening of rather drunken karaoke singing where Tim and his sister did an outstanding rendition of 'Snoopy's Christmas' complete with dance moves! Tim and Brian also wowed the crowds at the Green Man with an energetic performance of the 'Banana Boat' song, while Ses and Fi seduced the masses with 'Love Potion Number 9'. In fact, we drew in the crowds, as we noticed that the bar went from empty to full in the time that we were there :D a little bit different!

Sydney was heaps of fun, too. We stayed right in the centre of the city, near the town square, in a hotel called 'The Medina Grand'. Sounds lovely, but all we paid for was the location. The room was so small that you could barely swing a cat in there! nonetheless, we had plenty of opportunities to explore the city some more and do the usual touristy things like go on a harbour cruise and see the opera house, check out Kings Cross, etc etc. Tim found some really funny condoms in Kings Cross 'For small peckers', which he thought would be quite amusing to give to one of his friend's husbands..... although he ended up being unable to resist giving them to one of his workmates over in Sydney. Such a thoughtful gesture! I was really stoked at finally getting to look around the 'notorious' Kings Cross, and we liked it so much that we went back that night for a bit of night time entertainment (I'll leave it up to you, dear reader, to imagine what that entailed!)