Bad News

I am affraid that there might be a bit of a blogging vacation. Mainly due to the distruction of my laptop but also due to university busy-ness. I am floating in a pool of tears like alice about the whole thing and I hope to be back soon!

Four Loooooong Years :)

 Tomorrow Chris and I will have been together for four years!

A Day at Uni

Brunch; a boiled egg and toast soldiers, fruit toast, raspberry tea, nashi, strawberry and nashi smoothie.

Ready for uni.

 Bike in and hang out in the library between class.

 Bike home again in the evening.

Aurora

 We packed warm blankets and hot drinks and set off in search of the aurora.

 We decided where to go.

 And ended up here, but the moon was very bright and we couldn't see the southern lights.

 We looked at the moon through Chris's telescope.

It looked huge.

Autumn

It has gotten pretty cold, pretty quickly here and I am finding it very hard to get excited about Autumn, all I can think of is how sad I am Summer is over and how soon it will be winter. No more lovely picnics and fun outdoorsy things going on about the city. So I have put together a few Autumn themed pictures to get excited about other things, like lovely warm jerseys and mulled wine.

A Sunday in Eight Pictures

 On Sunday we went to Hanmer Springs. When we arrived we saw these peddle powered carts and couldn't resist.

 Riding the cart! (Town Curiser?)

 We had lunch at this Thai resturaunt after that, I had pork green curry.

 There was some very manly fist bumping between Matt and Finn.

 We stopped at the pub to have a drink before going to the hot springs.

We also got tickets to the hydroslides which were very cool. One was completely dark except for arrows indicating which way you were about to be thrown.

It was a good day out, when we drove home it was dark.

Blugh

So yesterday I realised I am starting to get  a cold... I dressed in my new snugly jersey and ate a bunch of the mandarins Chris's mum sent to us in hope that a boost of vitamin C will stop those germs in their tracks. At uni I noticed the first of the leaves turning yellow and red.

The Tiny Book

 Yesterday I bought this book from work for Chris, it is full of  illustraions and stories. It says on the back "The world is not made up of atoms, it is made of tiny stories".

 Some of my favorite ones. The one on the left with the bicycles says (incase you cannot read it) "One wanted to share a life together, the other wanted to share two". It is such a lovely pretty book, and it is amazing what can be conveyed in a couple of lines.

Butterflies

 On Monday after uni Chris and I went and saw the live butterfly installation at the museum. There were caterpillars, wooden frames holding crystallises and butterflies fluttering over potted flowers.

 You were allowed to hold them.

Chris.

Yesterday some were released to commemorate the earthquake.

Purchases

 A couple things I bought in Wellington. A dress with a peter pan collar from Recycle Boutique.

Note books for my classes and some envelopes from Japan City. The notebooks say on the cover "Flash, from now on there is nothing but good news !".