Ok, so it's been about "mumble" months since our last blog - but there is good reason! After our last post, we were feeling a bit down in the dumps about cruising with Twink and Pip. Things were proving more difficult than we had thought. So, as always, we changed our plans slightly and have put down roots in a new marina. We reason that we'll have plenty of time for cruising later, and are just enjoying being able to spend quality time with our fur-kids while they are still with us. We are also having an absolute blast here. We've meet some fantastic new friends, have been enjoying time with relatives, socialising heaps, racing 25ft keelboats and having a blast doing it, volunteering for coastguard and enjoying it, and generally spending time with people who are similarly minded and special to us. Plus, we have the bonus of not having 9-5 jobs and that awful Auckland traffic to deal with. With Steve out on his own and being flexible in hours and not actually having to work much at all to cover our very low living costs means we basically get to do whatever we want every day. That, my dear blog readers, is what's important in life.