NZ trip home - February 2009

After being away from home for almost a year, it was time to head back to Aoteroa to catch up with old friends and family. We squeezed in three weekends, but had basically two weeks to cram in a year's worth of NZ gossip and goings-on, and of course spend some time with our 6 month old niece, Tiana.But the main reason we went home was for two weddings, the first being Warren's sisters. The wedding was held at Castaways, an amazing venue on the west coast of NZ, and we spent the weekend staying on site at one of the many chalets with a heap of friends and family. Here are some of our favourite photos:
The following weekend we had the second wedding, one of Ange's good friends that she met at Genesis. The wedding was in Hamilton so we braved it and spent the night down there. And so after two very busy but fantastic weeks it was time for a very teary goodbye and a twelve hour flight to China...

Snow in London - 1st and 2nd of February 2009

While we were inside enjoying a typical British Sunday afternoon in the pub, outside it started to snow.

When we emerged we were immediately covered in snow, but Ange and I had a Superbowl party to get to in East London, so cross town we went.

At half time (about 2am) they recommended that due to the weather we leave and make our way home to avoid being snowed in. So we got the event bus back to central London, but by that stage the public night busses had been ordered off the streets due to the snow, so we had to get a cab back to Putney after hanging around Victoria train station for about half an hour. This is our street at 3am when we finally got home.

Monday morning we awoke to see that the snow was still falling and to hear that London had been ground to a standstill. The worst snowstorm in 18 years meant that the tubes, the busses and the trains were all out of action which meant we couldn't get into work! While we did do some work from home, Warren still had time for some compulsory snowman-making!