Lazy saturday

Ahhh what a good lazy day. Woke up early, for some weird reason, and then fell back asleep again, listening to the wind and rain outside. The weather here is definitely interesting in the winter, we get a lot of rain. It's often windy here too, gusting pretty heavily. Weather systems seem to move very fast, so I don't feel like we usually have too many days when it rains ALL day. But today was one of those days!

Kyle and I were goofing off and playing that scrabble game for a while in bed, and when we finally got up, he made an epic breakfast. And I mean epic. Eggs, potatoes, spinach, tomatoes, onions...all mixed together, with toast and yoghurt with fruit on the side. Yum! He definitely knows how to do breakfast. :)

For the rest of the day we just hung out really. I did some design work, we both did some laundry, and relaxed. Kyle was looking up some trip information for our potential anniversary trip. Thinking about going to the Cook Islands, maybe Rarotonga......

It has been great! Haha Kyle made a great pasta dinner too (we have left overs for days after how much food was made for breakfast and dinner!), and now we are relaxing on the couch watching Bolt :).

Good day :)


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Happy Friday

Well, yesterday was a pretty good day. Got two of my longer shots on this episode finished. I could have finished all of my longest shots, but i just wasn't in the mood to get into working with the bees, so luckily my other shots got assigned and I did a few of those. Only have a solid 750 frames left for next week. Not bad! :).

Anyways, end of the day went well, and we saw a screening of the finished Robot and Monster episode during happy hour. Then hung around the office chillin with people until Kyle picked up Kate and I.

We dropped Kate off, and headed out to a spontaneous dinner at a nice little Italian restaurant down the street. It was REALLY really good. Veal Marsala, with red wine, and then tiramisu for dessert :). Yum!! When we finished, Kyle mentioned going to check out the local piano bar up the street, so off we went.

Awesome fun. Two guys playing the pianos and singing some great music. Elton John, Eric Clapton, Eagles, etc. Everyone was up and dancing by the end. I was trying to get Kyle up to dance, but he wasn't feeling it. Next time, he won't have a choice. Haha. Anyway we had a great time. Then as we are leaving, one of the pianists was outside with his wife, and they struck up a little conversation with us. Really nice people. So we will definitely going back! :)

Good times.


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Workin out

Well, so far so good with workouts this week. Surfing Sunday, ran my first hilly 10k on Monday in months, and swam today. Nice! Sore from it all too. Tomorrow I'm cycling with the group and maybe running Friday. Pretty good!

Work was slow today, but still got a good amount done.

I'd say that calls for a steak and mashed potato/kumara dinner!




Moms mashed potato recipe (thanks mom), and Kyle did the steaks. NOM!

Time for some more scrabble, and bed (gotten addicted to Word With Friends on the iPod. :) )


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Tri-winning...its like bi-winning, but with three people....

Apparently....we are not very good at trivia. :). The three K's need to brush up on our knowledge.....of New Zealand. And, well, things in general. Haha.

That is all.


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Rainbows

Ok I must say that I see more rainbows here in New Zealand than I have anywhere else. It's insane (or "intense" even, lol). For example, the huge one from this morning on the way to work:













Crazy! Well, even though I skipped the ride his morning in this clear, chilly weather (quads are sore from the hills last night), let's hope today is a good day. Going to a Trivia Night at a local bar after work tonight. Though....I have a feeling I won't know any New Zealand trivia! Oh well :)



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Workout, what?!

Dude, Kyle and I just ran a pretty solid 10k (just a tad short of the total 10)! First time I have run that far in months. AND there were a couple wicked hills. Nice!

SOOOO sore in the arms from surfing. After that run too, hoping I'm up for the bike ride tomorrow morning. Haha listen to me... I sound like I did in college ;). Well at least a run like that warranted a nice Snapper dinner! Yum.

Can you believe we are STILL eating the red snapper we caught from when Kyle's mom and brother were here?! Nuts! Love it. :)

Good day today. I'm even caught up with all my work!!! Can't say that happens often :). Love it. Now to catch up on the rest of my emails...





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Surfin!

Well, today we took surfing lessons! A big group of us from work went together. There were about 8 of us that took he 10:30am lesson at Muriwai Beach Surf School. It was a good time! I can't say that I did awesomely, well, not like I had hoped anyway, but our instructor Martin, and his assistant (we cant remember his name), were really good. Martin was helping me a lot, and I got up a couple of times, unfortunately mostly on my knees, or on one knee, but that's ok. I would go again. Had a couple of wipe outs, and definitely swallowed some sea water...as well as totally clogging up one of my ears pretty bad. Ah well, no pain no gain! Haha.

Kyle did really well though! He had a great time and was definitely not ready to stop after the hour. Haha had we not been with a group, I think he would have surfed all day! So glad he had a good time. Apparently I need to do some serious push-ups to prepare for the next time we go. My arms got tired before anything else.

We dragged Kate out with us too last minute, and she had a good time. She did really well, better than me! She got (at least) one wave that I saw her ride all the way in. Good stuff!

We will definitely go again. Once I get rid of my ear ache! :)


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