Hi everyone,
We're back in Dunedin after a nice little trip back to the states. I'm happy to report that my dad is doing very well, back walking every day to the coffee shop and annoying my mother with his request for driving privileges. (In a rare twist, I got to give my dad driving lessons back in the same place he taught me to drive 20 years ago. Hands at 10 and 2 please!)
After getting back we had a full weekend to catch up on our sleep and enjoy some beautiful weather. It's exciting coming back to town and finding that all of a sudden it's light out until 6:30. Before we left it was barely light at 5:30.
We went back to our regular Monday night trivia game as well, with our friends Frankie, Gabby and Danny (Tom's still on vacation and we're looking forward to having him back). We've been fighting for third place with another team from Andrea's work but this week, for the first time, we won it!! On a tiebreaker question against the group that wins every week. The winning question was "how many current New Zealand residents were born in England?" Feel free to guess, closest guess gets a postcard.
Also new for this week, I took up a new sport. I got up at the ungodly hour of 5:30am, went down to the harbor and took part in my company sponsored crew team. You know what I learned? I really suck at crew. I should have known it was going to be rough when putting the boat into the water I ended up getting soaked well past my knees. Then while rowing I kept getting my oar stuck underwater, which they call "crabbing" here. One particular "crabbed" oar jumped out of my hands and fattened my lip. Stupid oar. I also managed to cut my foot, get a weird bruise on my stomach and break my seat. To everyone's credit they tried to stay encouraging.
Sorry no pictures, we'll take some soon.
Love,
Dave and Andrea
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3 comments:
my guess is 50,000.
is this the closets without going over?
if I win I want my post card!
Are you continuing with crew?
50001 I like to be sneaky.
49,999
It's called "catching a crab" in the states (I had a tendency to catch HUGE crabs in practice where I'd end up mostly underwater). One way to avoid it is to move your hands down at the finish before you feather the blade. Really exaggerate it while you're learning.
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