It's amazing how quickly life starts ticking along as usual when you've upped sticks and moved your entire life from one country to another. It's been 8 weeks since we arrived on 'the rock' and life has settled into it's own routine with incredible ease.
Works work, with it's own stresses and frustrations - even on a South Pacific island - in fact in this case probably more so because of being on a South Pacific island!! But when you walk out the door at the end of the day it's still very nice to be working here.
Daisy has settled into life being looked after by someone else other than me with a touch more ease than most mothers would like, after all it would be nice if she was just a little bit bothered by me not being there! We seem to have got that one perfect though - she's always pleased to see Barbara arrive and always pleased to see me come home, and that is a nice feeling. And as much as work comes with frustrations I am enjoying working again and that has to be made that much easier with leaving a contented child behind.
On to matters of a slightly more watery nature and we're now half way through our PADI course having gone out seaward and completed our 1st two open water dives last weekend. And very well it went too - what a marvellous place to spend your time! We saw a Barracuda, a rather cool looking Lion fish, some starfish, wonderfully colourful coral with all sorts of cool little things living in it. Some pretty large snakes and some huge clams along with all sorts of other wierd and wonderful fish of varying colourfulness and size. It's a very pretty place down there and I look forward to more discovery! We've got our last two confined water dives this coming weekend along with the exam, then just two more open water dives the following weekend and we're done! Just in time for a visit from Ned - superb!
Speaking of visits we're most excited to now have two more booked in with Dave and Kate coming out later in June and then Daisy's mate Isabella bringing her parents out for a bit of a jaunt in August, and not to mention our trip back to NZ at the beginning of August to introduce Daisy to snow, well that all just makes for lots to look forward to which is a pretty good spot to be in...
We were delighted to see the Tucker clan on skype the other day and as much as the quality isn't fantastic it truely is better than nothing, and without a phone of any sort without skype there is nothing so I must ask those of you who haven't already got a skype address - please set one up - it would be great to see you!
Right, that's me for now - I hope you're all really well - until next time Xx
Hey guys, great to hear your enjoying the diving! Make sure you learn what bites, what stings and what kills you.... having been an NZ bumpkin all my life, with nothing that'll eat, sting or bite to worry about, I hold you guys personally responsible for my life!
ReplyDeleteReally looking forward to seeing you guys, cant wait!!!!!