The past couple of weeks have been fairly eventfull. First off, a weekend snowboarding trip to Mt. Dobson a few hours drive south of Christchurch ended rather abruptly when Darren busted his foot. After a snowmobile trip off the slope and the long drive back to Christchurch and x-ray revealed there was nothing broken, just a severly sprained ankle. He is still hobbling a week later but went back to work today.

Overall it was a good weekend, we stayed in a really nice cottage just outside Fairlie which only cost $85 for the night. It was lovely to wake up in the middle of nowhere with just the sound of the birds outside. Until Darrens little misshap Mt Dobson had been fantastic, with the luxury of a chairlift, hardly any people and beautiful weather.

Sadly the weekend just gone was not such great weather and we didn't make it up the mountain. Most of saturday was spent hunting for clothes for Malc's mid-winter christmas meal, a 50's themed murder mystery. Malc was a mafia bodyguard and Annie the hosts maid. A pretty fun evening in all, sadly neither of us was the perpetrator or the victim.

Its now less than 2 weeks till moving in day and we still don't have any furniture! We spent Sunday looking around and fainting at the price of stuff. We have put priority on a bed and sofas, other stuff may have to wait!

Stay tuned, the next installment may well be from our new surf shack.