It's good to be home!

It's Monday morning and we're finally able to start relaxing a bit. We have had a very busy few days since we arrived back in NZ. Wednesday and Thursday were spent unpacking in to our home. We've rented a house in Epsom. Thanks to Mark's organisational skills we secured the house while we were on holiday in England. We had seen only seen a few photos on the internet before we arrived but the house is just fine. It has 3 bedrooms, a garage and is situated on a quiet cul-de-sac in Epsom which is more central than where we used to live.

Our landlords live over the back fence (Joanna and Wati) and they seem very relaxed. They've agreed to put a gate in to make the section secure for the dogs. Joanna arrived on our doorstep last night with a box of Coconut Macaroons!

Anyway back to the story.

Mark flew down to Nelson on Thursday night to pick up the dogs. I flew to Wellington on Saturday to go to Ian's (my Dad's) 60th Birthday party. Mark caught the ferry to Wellington and was there for the last part of the family BBQ. It was a great day and I spent most of it telling everyone about our holidays. We also exhanged belated Christmas presents - one of which was a basket containg Christmas goodies - all the things we missed out on Christmas day in Munich!

We stayed with Mark's sister, Melanie, in Wellington on Saturday night. On Sunday we had breakfast with Melanie and Mike at a nice cafe in Lyall Bay (Maranui Yacht Club) before driving back to Auckland with Gus and Nina.

Nina and Gus have settled in here very well. They seem very relaxed about change these days. It's obvjous that they have been well looked after in Nelson (and slightly indulged judging by the size of Nina :-) )

This morning we went to One Tree Hill for a walk. Gus and Nina got very excited once they realised where they were going and they knew exactly where their old walk was. They also remembered where to look for rabbits and celebrated by having a roll in some cow dung. We're home now and they've had a bath. Mark is doing paperwork and I'm heading off to test-ride some bikes if I can.