Home for the holidays...

Christmas is always a magical time and it can be quite weird living in the southern hemisphere for us northern hem folks. Growing up with snow and christmas trees and all the trappings of the winter christmas aesthetic can be quite disorienting when you find yourself in the middle of summer having BBQs and hanging out on the beach. To make it weirder they still have xmas trees and all the wintery decorations down here.

This year we decided to come home for a bit of christmas cheer. Jen and I will be in Chicago from Dec 17-23. MN from 24-30. Chicago again for New Years. Jen flies back to Auckland, New Zealand on the 7th of January I think. I fly to San Francisco on January 9th and back to New Zealand on the 17th (to arrive on the 19th).

Should be a blast and hope to meet up with any one that happens to be in these cities.

Cheers,

Matthew + Jen

Visitors, Visitors and more Visitors!

Hey,

Well after almost 2 and a half years, we finally had some more visitors. First off Rebecca came for 2 weeks (woot!). We had a great time and travelled all over the place including a big trip to the south island. We went to Dunedin, Queenstown, Glenorchy and on the north island, Wellington, Auckland and lake Taupo. A bunch of other stuff in between of course. Great time.

Runi and Walter came out for their second visit (what's everyone else's excuse for not visiting now?). They just left yesterday and hopefully are safe back in Florida by now. They brought their friend Charlie from New York who rocks and we all had a great time. Our friend Ed also visiting from Sydney in the middle of this trip and we all had a blast.

Thanks again to all who came out to visit and hope you some experiences to remember for a lifetime.

Cheers,

Matthew + Jen