Well it seems strange being down here and celebrating Guy Fawkes Night! Wellington celebrates with a large firework display in the middle of the harbour, co-ordinating with music on the local radio.
We had a grandstand view from Steph and Mike's balcony which looks out over the harbour and the Cook Straits. Robb & Heather had been out an bought a rather large box of fireworks (called the Earth Shaker) but unfortunatley it was too windy to let them off. We would have either set fire to the gorge below Stephs house or the neighbours house - seeing everyone lives in wooden houses round here we thought that it wasn't a wise move!
Sonia & Ben, Nigel's Niece and Fiancee arrive this weekend for a brief visit before heading off to the South Island. Hopefully we will finally meet up with Julian & Ness our old friends from Canada who live just down the road. We haven't seen them since we left Nova Scotia and so you could say we have a lot of catching up to do! My lasting memory of Julian will be of him dressed up as a camel at our Arabian night and Ness rather drunk performing in our garage in snow boots and a cycle helmut on Burns Night- I'm sure that some of you will remember those nights well!
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