Monday, February 9, 2009

Feb happenings

Hi everyone,
Just a little post to say we are still kicking over here and haven't gone into hibernation just yet.
Our internet has been cut at home so its a little more difficult to post regularly, but I'll try.

Since I last wrote we had our coldest ever Australia day, tried to understand the superbowl, froze in -22 degrees below and are now enjoying some amazing positive temperatures.

I'll start with Australia day, we visited the token Aussie pub (its actually owned by a Kiwi). We were a bit dissapointed to be honest as they didn't serve any Aussie beer or have any aussie food. We had to make do with fosters!

There was a decent turnout for a Monday night, and we did our best to display the proper (lack of) Aussie culture.

The camera didn't come out until late in the piece so you will have to excuse the quality of the snaps.

Squinting.
After a tough week at work following that night out we were rewarded with a weekend of out of season weather. It was a sweltering 4 degrees and sunny. But after living in -10 and lower for the past month it seemed like summer. The snow was even warm enough to build a snowman.
We names him Boris.
After Boris was built we headed out to watch Americas biggest sporting event. The superbowl.

At least attempt to watch it, the game doesn't seem to make much sense and is pretty boring. I think I was into more than Sarah was. There was an Australian playing for Arizona.
This was Sarah after 4 hours of American football. Not happy, and a little tipsy.
In the end Pittsburg beat Arizona, but at least it was close. At least as far as I could tell.

This weekend our run of luck continues with the weather, we had a -22 day on Thursday, but yesterday was 8 degrees and today is 1. So the streets are alive and it feels really warm.
Yesterday we went out for lunch at the marriot, which was cool because the restaurant is built into the wall of the Rogers Centre, Torontos baseball stadium.

They were setting up for some carshow, but it was still cool to see what its like from there.

The food was good too!

Anyways gotta split, hope everyone is doing ok. Can't remember if I have mentioned this but, we will be back in NZ on May 10th and in Brisbane on May 24th. So keep the calenders free and get the xxxx on ice!

Laters