More Expats Arrive October 2007

Well our friends arrived in October as has been a busy few months sorting out our house with summer months arriving and garden to get sorted and all those wonderful ideas you try to get around to before the run up to summertime.

Chloe and Sophie now have their friends from UK now to look forward too full time as they arrived in October and were indoctrinated into the RNZAF just like me, the first year will no doubt be like ours plenty of ups and downs and will be a settleing in period.

The girls settled in well and adopted their Kiwi School at Hobsonville Primary with great excitement, Dean has seopttled into the Kiwi Airforce and no doubt has seen many differences to the RAF. We have also done lots of family activity since they arrived, the annual Village Green on Base Auckland was a must do !! With 5 top bands playing that night Lucid 3 , Opshop, Electric Confessionairs, two more which I cannot remember for the life of me. Now we enter the Christmas rush if you can call it that to get the last minute bits and bobs for the family and then can look forward to a well earned rest and enjoy the summer weeks ahead. Most mornings now are in the hight 20's and cannot complain to be honest as I remember those UK cold winter mornings this time in December, so its a welcomed time to enjoy the different change in climate. Jan 08 will see us set off down south to visit at long last some sights that most people get to see when they travel this far south on holiday, so for the rest of us that call this place home it is nice to get away and see those sights at our own pace.