Wedding pictures are here!

Halloween, an American staple, has come and passed in New Zealand. Sadly, I had no trick-or-treaters and it seemed to put me in a frumpy mood. I always imagined the stuff that Gordon and I would get to do as a couple and giving out candy on Halloween was one of them. Although, he does tell me that we can have our own Thanksgiving tradition from now on. I would have to celebrate a couple of days behind though, on the weekend. I guess it could be a quirky, American thing that I do for friends and family. This Thanksgiving will be spent at a birthday party for one of Gordon's cousins. We tried to go and get my ticket refunded this weekend but there was a sign on the door stating that until further notice that office will be closed on Saturdays. It was a bummer, I'll have to take Gordon to work one day and just go into Palmerston North to take care of it. I have to admit though that if I get any runaround I just might lose it because Air New Zealand told me to go into the holiday store to get my ticket sorted out and refunded. I just don't understand it but that is the way some New Zealand stores are.

We used all of our gift cards for our garden project this weekend as well. We have lots of veggies that we are trying to grow. There's lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, zucchini, cucumber, pumpkin, bell peppers, green beans and butter beans. I also got some cute little growing punnets. I have to say that I love them to death and it sure beats having to drill holes in old yogurt containers to make seed pots. We'll see how they work out. I ended up buying two more of them later in order to successfully grow my little flowers. I wanted to get some pots for my flowers so I could take them with me but they were two expensive to buy, even the small, plastic ones! That got me even more upset on Saturday, first the Air New Zealand store and then I couldn't get my pots, the one thing that I wanted for my gardening. I wasn't very happy on Saturday and the lack of Halloween cheer was getting me down as well. Gordon was very understanding though.

On the bright side, we went to church on Sunday. It turns out that Gordon likes St. Andrews Presbyterian church! I'm so relieved that we'll have a church to go to from now on and we can stop looking. Gordon said that the service and songs reminded him of the church he used to attend in Whangarei, it was called St. Andrews! Even better was today when I hooked-up to my broadband and found in my gmail inbox the link to my wedding photos! Here it is everyone: http://www.pictage.com/574251 and the password is clover if it asks you for one. I don't think I set a password on it though. It was so great to see all the pictures. It made me so happy and there really are some stunners in there too! I'm going to keep it short today. See if I can muster up the strength to give a better blog in a couple of days. Life is good for now in New Zealand and my birthday is only a month away now! Gordon says he's not sure what he's going to get me so I keep throwing him hints so he knows. He says it will be awfully hard for his gift to be a surprise since I'm always shopping with him but I have faith in him. Speaking of which, I have to start my Christmas shopping so I can send everything back home in time! Have a good start to November!