Happy birthday to me

Today, September 17 2006, I celebrated that I am already walking on this earth for 37 years now. This milestone is pretty special, because 1) the earth has been able to put up with me for all this time, 2) I am now exactly half the age of my father, 3) it is my first birthday I am celebrating as a New Zealand resident! Hopefully many birthdays will follow :-)

To celebrate my birthday I have had a delicious piece of carrot cake, loaded with heaps of whipped cream (for once it was allowed heheh). In spite of all doom tidings the weather wasn’t bad at all today, so I went with Emma to one of my favourite spots in NZ: the Rakaia Gorge. Only an hour’s drive from Ashburton, too!

During the trip to the gorge our NZ car reached a milestone: 100,000 km on the display! We ended the evening by dining out in an Indian restaurant for NZ$46 in total, not that expensive and very tasty. All in all it was a pretty nice day.


Next week we will start working on the things that because of the jetlag, chatting, bank-searching, exploring the town and its supermarkets, buying some essential stuff, updating the web log etc. we didn’t really get around to do: job hunting! “IT jobs are all over the place in Christchurch!” Or are they…? Only THREE IT job ads in the entire Saturday newspaper??? Hmmm :-/ I think I’ll have to be pretty creative to find something. Oh well… makes it fun doesn’t it. We’ll just have to see… (and call, and email, and write, and even threaten, when necessary ;-)