If you have a webcam, we can chat now. I have some of your screennames for AIM or Skype. There are some I don't....JANET SYLER. I need yours and anyone else's who wants to video chat. :-)
Monday, December 22, 2008
Christmas Goodies
Thanks to those of you who have sent us Christmas greetings, Leslie and Brad. We loved getting greetings from home and Korea! Leslie, the Kemps were quite thrilled their name was on the letter too. Dad and Jan sent us some homemade Christmas goodies. Needless to say, we were all very excited about that. Dad was pretty sure we weren't going to making any of our own this year, and he was right. We make just what we can right now.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Internet is up!!
Click here for pictures
Here's a link to the pictures I took. I tried to explain everything on the pages.
If you don't already know this, you dial 011 to dial out of the country. So, you'd dial that in front of what i've already posted.
Let's see...what's happened since our last post....we got our first sunburns here. It was Sunday at the park. neither of us were burnt bad. jer's are still there. they're on his shins...what's funny is he was wearing long hiking socks...so it's only like half his shin. :-) i've also started in on our gardens. i only finished a very small section that was full of weeds and dead stuff and had to be trimmed back b/c it was starting to come down and onto the driveway creating new soil for weeds to grow in. i hurt pretty bad today. lots of bending over. our mattress comes today!! very excited about that. we have been using one that was here. we're pretty excited to get ours. this one we're using will be the guest bed. so, come one and all to visit!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
still no internet
we've been in the house a week now. all is well so far. we're just trying to get all the stuff we need to play house and not overlap too much what we have coming in our shipment. That's been pushed back to arrive on the 30th. of course, that doesn't mean we'll get it that day. customs could keep it a while. we're still w/o our regular internet. they do things very strange here. they send you a letter when your phone is working (after 3-5 days) then tolling takes 3-5 days (whatever that is) then you get another letter that your DSL is working (3-5 days after all that). dumb. it's a phone company...they should just call you. they told us its not like we just flip a switch...to which jeremy and jeremy said, "yeah, it kinda is". there's no cable yet in our auckland, so we didn't have that option. all this said means that i can't upload photos yet. our mobile internet can't do that much.
we're getting used to hanging out clothes on the clothes line. we have a dryer, but try to use it as little as possible. the washing machine takes an hour to run. crazy. the washer's bigger than the dryer too, so if i did need to dry something, i either do a smaller wash load or split the load in half. that's kinda funny.
dad sent us two boxes that i left for them to send with our stuff. one arrived two days ago, the other we're still waiting on. there's still time left today. it's just funny.
jer's really liking nz. i'm really happy about that. i wasn't worried about it, but it's nice to know that he does like it. we're doing good driving on the other side of the street. we've only turned on the wipers instead of the turn signal once each. :-) when i visited last time, i did it like every other time. it was a big deal to go a whole day w/o turning on the wipers. :-)
we've gone to a picnic with the church here last sunday. this sunday we're doing it again. it's a cool little beach place about 45 mins north of here called shakespear park. you can see the auckland skyline in the distance. i guess that's about it for now. i'm adding pages to my pictures so that there will be plenty to upload when i get the ability. :-) have a nice day!
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Edit phone number
Edit on the phone number. You have to take out the first zero; apparently it's for in country use only. so the current number is...
(64) 21-027-565-74
Thursday, December 4, 2008
House
i was going to post pics and movies from the trip tonight, but it won't upload the webpages i made for them. so you'll have to wait until we get into the new house we got! yes, that's right a house. it's a rental. we're sharing it with the kemps. it's huge and overlooks the sea. we're all pretty excited. here's our new address
17 Sea Vista Ave.
Beach Haven, Auckland 0626
New Zealand
We'll also be getting a home phone or skype number or something. I'll post that when it happens. that mobile number i posted earlier might give you less calling time on a calling card. they like to do that. they do mobiles and internet so funny here. maybe i'll explain that later when my computer is up and running. talk to y'all later.
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