Saturday, August 16, 2008

One ring to rule them all!

Hello, so here it is the photo of my engagement ring (or should I say our ring), anyway here it is we picked it up during the week and I've been getting used to wearing it! We haven't been up to much this week just hanging out. We still have no new house but I'll keep you posted!
Raining cats and dogs here for a change. Weather looks to be pretty close to Dublin's at the moment. Couple of new houses coming up that have potential so will hopefully have a new place soon. We went and saw Star Wars: The Clone Wars last night. It was a great movie and good for some laughs. Apart from that it's been lots of Olympics on the TV. Apparently if you're an Aussie swimmer and get a silver medal, there is something wrong with you.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Dum dum de dum

Hey,
So we've set a date! It's all set! Brad and I will be signing all the papers and legally married on January 9th 2009! So those here in Australia keep the date free and everyone in Ireland check out the blog the day before and after and we'll post some photos here!
On another note we have to move out of the house here cause the landlord is selling but we hope to find something soon in the same area! We're doing fine though except Brad is a little under the weather with a cold (the cat keeps jumping everytime he sneezes! it's so funny). That's all the news so far, keep in touch
Aimee

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Zorb II: The Zorb strikes back

Kia Ora!! Or hello! How is everyone?! You'll all have to start leaving messages on this! So Brad and I are back from New Zealand as you may know we had to go there to sort out my visa but its all done now and I'm ready to start the job hunting!
We had a great time. Our hotel was lovely and very central and despite the horrible weather (two storms hit Auckland while we were there) we managed to have a great time. We visited Kelly Tarltons and saw the Sharks being fed. We took a fantastic day trip to Waitomo to see the glow worm caves (www.waitomo.com/waitomo-glowworm-caves.aspx) a
nd continued on the same day to Rotorua to do some zorbing! We also went to a geothermal park and saw a Maori cultural show.
After the visa got sorted we also had a go at the Skywalk at the top of the Auckland Sky Tower 192m up! www.skywalk.co.nz/ This was excellent but slightly scary as the wind was very strong from the storms and I did feel like I was going to be blown off the tower! All in all it was a great trip.

NZ was loads of fun and it barely felt like we were out of Australia. I can see why a lot of people refer to it as the 8th State. Zorbing was loads of fun and the Sky Walk was a little scary but really exciting.
The Chicken Cordon Bleu was an absolute credit to the airline.