FINALLY

We are in! and ALMOST all the furniture is in the room where it will ultimately reside (if we get the coffee table into the living room tonight, that will be as much as can be done at this point). Everything we can find in mover's boxes is unwrapped and put away in the nice new cupboards and drawers, and the boxes of miscellany that we moved from the rental house are shoved in various corners. I am still working on clothes. I thought we got rid of a lot of clothes, but then I keep finding things tucked in various drawers and boxes...our closets here are much smaller, but that is probably good, in the long run. After all, people here seem to wear the same clothes over and over again quite happily, and that suits me fine. The washer and dryer and working (at the same time, yet, after some intervention from the electrician), and Emily is delighted with having a bathtub again. We put up the net canopy Grandma gave her, over her bed, and she feels like a princess and goes to sleep like an angel. Or something.

You may not be aware of the great national tragedy that occurred over the weekend; there is a chance this is not big news your little corner of the world, but here, the front page of the newspaper is all black, because the All Blacks (the national rugby team) lost their game against FRANCE of all countries, in the Rugby world cup. Apparently this has happened before. It is the object of much lamentation. There was the little matter of a volcano that erupted a couple of weeks ago, causing evacuations of many spring break skiers, and the rescue of one fellow trapped by a boulder that came through the roof of his cabin--but that was small news, compared with the defeat of the All Blacks.

We found the camera, and have taken pictures, and we have the computer set up, but that pesky cable may take a few more days to unearth...but we will have pictures, soon...

I had some other New Zealand oddisms, but I can't remember them now. More to come...

Carrie