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Sarah says:

This here little town is suiting us just fine. It amazes me how we continue to be entertained by our new routine of getting up at 10:00, walking to town, having a coffee, walking back to the house, grilling up some dinner..and that’s about it. It’s not that we aren’t doing anything at all - we’re actually doing quite a lot. but when you don’t have to make time for a job, you can do lots of things and do absolutely nothing at the same time!

Trafalgar Street is a main shopping street in Nelson and it ends right at the steps leading up the town cathedral. The fine people of Nelson are partitioning to close the block of street right in front of the cathedral steps from traffic so that it can be dedicated to street performers. We’ve been to several summer events so far on that very block and let it be known - we whole heartily agree that their idea would be splendid.

Take for instance the annual Buskers Festival where the whole town came out with their picnics and cushions to sit on the cathedral steps to watch street performs earn the coins we quite happily dropped in buckets. people juggling fire while balancing on rolling platforms, walking a tight rope supported by members of the audience, pogo-jumping with no hands - it’s a family friendly spectacular!

A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream was pretty cool but we still didn’t catch on about bringing your own cushion. we rented them.

Saturday Market is where we get our produce for the week.

We can’t wait to check out the wine and art festival next weekend and then there’s the End of Summer Fair in early March.

Last night we attended Opera in the Park and Fireworks Finale. Apparently, this is old hat in the UK and David had been to several with several other girls - but I had not and I was pretty blown away. We bought a bottle of wine and set up a blanket and picnic. It was pretty cool. Of course they set off the fireworks to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Oveture which was - well - amazing.

We’ve also been keeping fit. We went to a Capuiora workshop in the park yesterday - I cannot walk today and will absolutely not be taking up this particular martial art but it was pretty cool to learn the basics. Anyone after extremely firm inner thighs - this is the thing for you.

We are also very excited to be attending a local Karate school (www.seido.co.nz). It has been awesome being back in a dojo, we’ve loved seeing the similarities and differences to our style at home, we’ve been very welcomed and hope that we are representing our school and Master well. We may even come home able to count to ten in Japanese. More details on the school to follow.

We are about half way through our trip now. It’s taken about this long to relax a little and not have dreams about the office. It’s also taken about this long to be reminded how cool our own city is and that it’ll be good to get home and the end of this.

So many of you have sent us emails or posted messages here and we’ve really been crap at personally responding to most of you. I’m super sorry about that - I have no excuse other than we are 1.) lazy and 2.) constantly watching the clock tick up more $$$ on computer time. But we miss all of you and thank you so much for keeping in touch!

Kindly overlook spelling mistakes as this computer is way too slow to do spell check.

Take care!

Don’t forget to check out our first gallery and our second gallery and our third gallery and our forth gallery and all our extreme sports mad stuff.

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