busy but exceptional week!!

So, we moved out of our flat in Takapuna on Thursday, Mum and Don brought a van up and we hired another one and took all our gear down to Taranaki for storage, we had to throw it into storage early on Friday morning and zoom back up to Auckland in time to drop our Van back off. Then drive our own car back down. A mish, but worth it!!. So we cruised along getting details finalized and getting things ready for our departure and thought we were all set to go until wednesday we got a stroke of luck!. As you all know Zoe is from U.K and has applied for residency in New Zealand, well we were told that what we have done so far has to be cancelled and she has to reapply when we come back next time, we were a bit let down but hey, what can ya do if those are the rules. So anyway, Zoe had to make a call to her residency case Manager and finalize the details, when she did he was like "hang on, I just signed those papers for you If you can come up here to Auckland we can get the stamp in your passport and you'll have your residency"!! WOOOHHOOOOO!!!!. So ... 2 days till fly out time and we take off in a mad dash for our old haunt Auckland once again. Alls well that ends well, we drove up and back the same day, and with a fresh new Kiwi in the passenger seat on the way back. Least to say we are stoked :-). Well thats it for now, 2 days until we fly the sky with Singapore Airlines :-)

Have a splendid day all !!

Packing

So we leave here(Auckland) next thursday and so are packing and getting things ready for our next adventure!. From then we stay in Taranaki with the family until we fly out from New Plymouth at 10.20am. Our next flight is from Auckland at 3.00 pm. We stop over in Singapore and after 22 hrs from leaving Auckland we land in Athens, Greece!. Then a Taxi to our awaiting ship :-). We will be meeting the old Manager Marcell on there who we both know from our first ship, Norwegian Star. Will keep yas up to date as we go, chow for now!

bbq

We had a bbq on saturday atfernoon/night with our neighbors. John is from Sth Africa and so we learnt loads about some of the places we are heading off to and got some good pointers. He cooks a mean Sth African bar-b!! hot coals and all, no gas here mate! Kayleigh is going to be Peaches' new mum, as you can see they get on very well. :-) Glad to know she's going to a good loving home. Hey Milly, where'd ya go? ;-)

NZ photos

some photos from NZ, us, Mt Egmont- Mark's local mountain, and Peaches our cat!

Mark & Zoe photo

so here we are, this is a photo of us :-) Right now we are closing down everything here in Auckland, New Zealand and are getting ready to embark on another cruise ship mission. Are we excited??- you betcha!!.