More plans

Hello again

This is a post to let everyone know exactly what im up to now. I had a great time in the weekend, spent all day at the water theme park known as Wet n Wild on the Gold Coast.. it was really fun with lots of hydroslides and other such activities. Went to the usual church meeting on Sunday morning which was great... everyone there doesnt want me to come back to New Zealand... but i've already made up my mind which is the main point of this email.

I've booked my tickets home now :), so i am officially coming home on the 11th of May, and my plane arrives at Christchurch airport at 11:55pm that night. So all of you who are night owls are welcome to come and say hi if you feel like a trip to the airport late at night. I've also booked in my flight to Sydney on the 7th of May so im going to travel there first and spend 4 days saying hi to all the family in that area... and maybe doing a bit of shopping as well seeing as i havent really had much chance due to wanting to save and not knowing how much money i will need.

So yes I met up with an awesome Guy named Sam (Hi Sam if you are reading this) on Sunday and we went along to a great night service at a Lutheran church and heard a pastor tell his story of how he was clinically dead after the sinus node on his heart stopped working for 2 minutes and he had an amazing experience before they brought him back to life. For a downloadable recording of it you can check out this site.

So yes apart from this things are still ticking along quite nicely, ive got lots of work and most of the people im working for like me lots and want me to work more.... im just struggling to find time in my schedule to fit the demand :). Having a few car troubles... we managed to fry some of the electrics when we were adjusting the alternator (and accidentally left one of the charging leads resting on the chassis as we started the car and blew an 80amp fuse.... twice) so some of the electrics arent going too well including the cooling fan... so our radiator seems to be overheating a bit... hopefully Andy will be able to fix it though, i think he seems confident he can set a some sort of switch so we can turn the cooling fan on via the dashboard.

Well im really looking forward to coming home now that everything is booked... time seems to be going so slowly though, hopefully it will speed up because then i'll get back quicker. Its strange I really like it over here, but now that i've actually settled a bit I feel like its time to get back because otherwise I might be tempted to stay for too long. Also i miss having friends to go visit and all the other lovely things about home.

So yes that is the news as it stands for Monday the 18th of April 2005, I hope all is well back home and until next time... you are all awesome

- Farewell
- Dan