Whats been happening

I know it has been a while but I find using blogger

difficult. But thanks to those of you who gave me

some tips, I think I might have the hang of it. Bev has

given up on blogger and has gone to facebook as it

is easier to use. It has been a few months since my

last blog so here are a few photos of what we have

been doing. Bev had her 50th in June and I organised

a surprise party for her. She didn't want one but

there you go, what comes around goes around.

Any way we had a good time.

In July we took the Transalpine train from Christchurch

to Greymouth with some friends. As you can see there was

plenty of snow about and the 20 minute stop at Arthurs

Pass ended up in a big snow fight. We stayed the night at

Greymouth and back to ChCh the next day on the

train again. It was great for me for as a teenager I

travelled on the railcar to Arthurs Pass many times

to go tramping so it was really good to see it all again.

In August we flew to Singapore with a group of our

friends. We had a couple of days seeing the sights

then we boarded the Star cruises ship Virgo.

I was a bit worried about being jammed in with 2000

other people on a boat but was pleasantly surprised.

There seemed to be heaps of room  and at times

wondered where every one was. It was probably good

that there was a casino down in the belly of the ship

and a fair number of passegers spent most of their time

down there.

About to board.

The pool area with 4 spas and hydroslide looking down

from the bar. A bad combination.

The boat cruised at night and pulled into a port in the

morning. Our first stop was Penang where the highlight

 was riding elephants and for some getting up close to

monkeys. Don't be fooled by the smile on my face, I hate 

the little sh!ts as I was bitten by one in Bali a few years

ago. I don't trust them. Bev was in her element.

The next day we turned up at Phuket where again we

hired a man with a van to show us around.

KL was next.

We had 6 days on the boat and really enjoyed it.

I'm sure we will cruise again. Back in Singapore

we said goodbye to our friends for a couple of days

and stayed with Blake, Adrianne and Flynn.

They have a really nice appartment in a complex that has

all that you need.

Blake showed us some of his watering holes

Flynn posed with the tourists. No not us, A group

of Japanese almost kidnapped him and fought each

other to have their photos with him. He enjoyed it

though. A bit like his father maybe.

Adrianne and Flynn showed us the gardens .

On our last day we had a Singapore sling in the long

bar at Raffles hotel. We only had one,they were

$26 each . Ouch .Should have asked first!!!!

We havn't done a lot since our Singapore trip.

Just getting through the last of the winter.

I'm about to start work next week down in

Canterbury inseminating cows. Looking forward

to having some regular work again but the down side is I'm

away for about 6 weeks.

Who knows maybe my next blog might have some

action shots of me at work.

Watch this space.