Its that time of year!

Weta Christmas Party

Weta BBQ
lunchtime gift exchange at work

Decorating the Apartment

Rachel on the phone and making snacks

before trimming

after trimming

filmed unknowing decorating

Summer in December

Just some pictures of Wellington. Enjoy.

yep, people do this

one of our hangouts. Live music every weekend.

This is a boat

Rachel on a typical Saturday

Best seafood chowder

Thanksgiving in a country without Thanksgiving

We made the best of it, and it was the best.
Since we had no mothers to cook for us we decided to tackle the challenge of doing it all ourselves. The turkey, the stuffing, mashed potatoes, candied yams and so on....
So Rachel found the parade online, we put on Christmas music and spent the day cooking and drinking and, later, eating and drinking and it was pretty awesome. All the food, by the way, turned out great! My compliments to me.

Hawkes Bay Wine Region

So........we drove North from Wellington about 5 hours up through Hastings to Napier and did mucho tastings of some pretty decent wines. It was lotsafun.

My attempt at a panoramic stitch of Temata Peak in Hastings.

The little library at our hotel in Napier. It was the oldest building in Napier.

Our lunch table at Elephant hill Winery

Another poor panoramic of a winery we stopped at on the way home and had a picnic.