Arrived home yesterday morning ... feeling quite weary from the flight! Poor phil had to go back to work as well! Adding to that it was 35 degrees when the weather report was only 24 degrees! How way out can you get??

The wedding was fantastic on saturday and we had wonderful weather for it. It was held a 45 min drive from Kaitaia ( which was about 4 hours drive north of auckland). There was a clearing/valley bit among all the huge trees and even a river as well. A gazebo was put up for the wedding handmade by Greg (phils bro) and his dad. Bride-dani was gorgeous and the little flower girls and their daughter were in gorgeous little fairy dresses! Phils speech was great..although he felt over prepared, it was lovely and quite funny. There was even a bonfire towards the end of the night when it got a teeny bit chilly. We had yummy seafood and two pigs on the spit!

On the way back to Auckland on the last day, Phils mum drove us around to the scenic 90 mile beach, their old properties, and through some very cute and picturesque towns and places. Had more seafood for lunch.. yum yum!

Brendan made us a pork roast that night too.. how sweet :) Phil got his crazy japanese nitendo ds game featuring an all male cheer squad, (you play as one of the cheerleaders) and was very impresed with it. Dan bought it for him in japan.. so everything is in japanese, which makes for a lot of laughs!

Now Im back it seems really weird that I don't have to rush in the morning or around lunch time to go back to work. It is a really, really strange feeling. I'll get over it but its the first time in my life that I'm not working or studying. There IS plenty to do around the house atm though, lots of cleaning, and making the place neater.. and unpacking, oh its really not my forte. When we moved here, to the new place in black forest we put all our clothes into the suitcase and hadn't fully unpacked it until we needed it again for the trip to NZ we just went on!

Wellington:





A house made of shipping containers!


Some wide screen guitar hero action at Phil's friends place in Wellington as well!




Phil and Kristy (his sis) at a cute surfie cafe at lyall's bay ( i think thats where we were!) its stunning there!




Kaitaia: (Hayley and Cody-Phil's niece and newphew posing for camera) cuties :)










Kristy and I didn't try too hard to catch the bouquet..hehe




Photos from the drive from kaitaia back to auckland. Stunning landscapes!!