Reunion!

 This weekend I had my five year school reunion. The first night we talked and danced and stayed up till five.

 I didn't get much sleep but I saw the sunrise which was so lovely, because we drove there in the dark and didn't know where we were.

 We went down to the beach on Saturday. Femke.

 Jess and Lil.

 Eddy.

 Paasca brought some of his home brew for people to try.

 We played lots of card games in the cabin. It was a really cool place, the living area was huge.

 In the evening Zac, Lenny and I went looking for some Paua.

It was really beautiful at the beach in the evening. I had fun exploring the rock pools.

 After dinner there was circle of death, where one of the rules was that everyone had to switch clothes.

 Before we left on Sunday we took a class photo. It was so lovely to see everyone again.

Take Me Like Vitamin

 New Brighton today.

Tamarillo

Dessert! Tamarillo with a quantity of sugar. So good!

Timaru

 On Friday both Chris and I had a day off so we went on a little road trip...

 To Timaru. We looked at the pretty buildings and strolled through the shops.

 We had some lunch.

 And had a drink at the historic pub.

 We looked at the animals in the pet store.

And drove home as the sun was setting.

One Year

 It has been exactly one year and a day since I started this blog. One year ago we had just moved to back to Christchurch after escaping to Gisborne following the earthquakes. Chris had just had knee surgery and our lives seemed quite uncertain. Blogging was something I had been thinking about doing for a while and a large drift of snow which I photographed finally brought this blog about. The idea of the blog was really just to recognise what in my life I thought was beautiful and what I loved and to remind myself what these things were. 

 Food is one of these things, and boy have I eaten well this year.

 There have also been some parties, festivals and adventures.

 Christmas and New Years spent in Australia with my family.

 There have been some outfits and hair cuts and shoes.

And there has been one very special person along on all my adventures.

So that has been a year of my blog. I have been a bit slow at making posts in the last few months, for which I could make many excuses. But really you have to make time for important things.
 I know I have a couple silent followers out there (they admit it occasionally on the sly), what would you guys like to see on here? More daily posts? Are there specific things about my life that anyone wants to know? Make it easy for me and give me a few ideas!

But most importantly thanks for watching and commenting and being cool. If no one ever looked I might well disappear off the internets.

Sunday at the Markets

 This morning was grey and foggy, so we went to the market to see the sights and buy some fruit.

 There was a busker playing the acordian.

 (:

 They have some cool vintage stalls there, it is always fun to sift through everything.

 The apples and pears that you can buy there are local and so fresh and yum

 I got some very comfy Kathmando tramping boots.

I thought The Boat Shed look pretty on the way home.

You are supreme, the chicks'll cream

 On Sunday we went to a drive-in movie that the uni was putting on. This is how I looked.

 There was free popcorn .

 And the movie was Grease. It was great apart from the fact that car park is full of trees.