Jejune January

Hey Everyone ,

Wow I can't believe 20 days have gone by since we last posted a blog!
Normally in NZ, being summer, and a month filled with holidays, January goes extremely fast and before you know it you are into Feb! However, when it is winter, January is quite a long, depressing month!
So...........to counteract this depression, we have been spending money by booking trips - yay! At long last we will actually be travelling somewhere, notching up a few more stamps in our passports - next Thursday afternoon we head to Paris on the Eurostar(Chunnel) for a longer weekend, so we are really looking forward to that.

We have also just booked a 10-day trip to Egypt with Bevan's cousin and her fiancee (Dee and Mark) for Easter, so that is also very exciting -can't wait.
In the mean time, we have been quite boring lately, saving money for these trips :o) - hence the lack of blog updates!

Last weekend we went to the Borough Markets which were pretty cool - they sell mainly food, from all over the place - and they have lots of yummy cakes and cheese's and more types of mushrooms than I have ever seen in one place. We then went to Canary Wharf (where Bev works - very similar looking to the Viaduct in Auckland) to Yum Cha (Chinese Brunch) with Dee and Mark, and then a free showing of the 80's film The Goonies on a big screen at this cool dome like venue that they are trying to market as a venue to hire for conferences etc (hence the reason why it was free).

This weekend we are going to the theatre to see a show called Avenue Q (with our Kiwi friends) - which is a muppet like show so that should be entertaining, and then on Saturday night, Bev's Polish workmate and his girlfriend are coming around for dinner, and to drink Wodka (polish vodka) because Bev did this guy a favour, and in Poland you pay somebody for a good deed in Wodka - haha should be interesting.......

Otherwise we have just been watching DVD's, Bev's been playing hockey, and we have been fighting with our internet provider to have access to the internet - honestly how hard can it be!

Today I got to travel to Bristol for a meeting for work, so that was quite exciting, and a good chance to get out of the office - however, a little bit disillusioning when all you do is hop on a train, travel for 1hr 40, hop off, go to a meeting, then hop back on the train for 1hr 40 to go home!

Anyway that really is about the extent of the last 20 days of our lives! We are still holding out hope for snow, however, it appears that this is one of the warmest January's London has had on record - although I'm not complaining! We will try and stick some pics up next time of our trip to Paris!

Looking forward to hearing from you
Jam and Bev