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It’s before 04:00 and I’m sitting here waiting for my cab to come and pick me up and take me to the airport.  Another three days of sales kick-off rah-rah-rah in Sydney to come, yay……… The good thing about this time though is the fact that on Friday Vic turns up for two days in Sydney with me, yay (and it’s not a sarcastic yay like before!)

Have a good week people and good luck to those grandparents and aunties that are sharing the boys while we are gone

For Gina who is suffering under snow at the moment – a little sunshine for ya!  This was breakfast time yesterday…..

Just a quick update on how Max’s little excursion to Granny’s went the other day.  In a word, brilliantly!  We went around about mid afternoon and had a barbeque for dinner.  We’d taken Max and his stuff up to the spare room soon after we got there and Max seemed perfectly at ease with staying in “his room” for the night.  He went to bed without any trouble and my Mum said that the only problem she had is that he woke up at midnight, she found him standing by the bed but he got straight back in and went back to sleep.  Nice!

That was Saturday night and on Monday (long weekend here) my Mum rang up and asked if she could take Max for a ride on the ferry as she had planned it for Sunday but the weather wasn’t conducive.  Sure, we said, and Max was off on his first boat trip The ferry runs between Petone and the city and crosses the harbour on it’s 20-30 minute sailing.  The next bit is so New Zealand The ferry had got most of the way across the harbour when the captain came over the PA and asked if anyone was in a hurry – strange!  He then said that if they went a bit out of their way that there was a pod of dolphins in the harbour that would probably be attracted to the boat and follow them for a while.  So a bit of a detour later and the ferry was surrounded by dolphins!  Whilst Max wasn’t really all that interested (although all fish are now dolphins in the books we read) it was a real buzz for my Mum.

All in all it’s looking good for Vic’s trip to Sydney where we will meet up after my next business trip there.  It all happens the weekend after next and we’ll be away from both the kids for three nights – nice

14 October 2000

Max is at his Granny’s house tonight as a trial run for when Vic and I go away for 3 nights to Sydney at the end of the month (yay!) I’m pretty sure it’ll go OK…….

This is Max at his third birthday party – he’s such a poser for the camera

My mate Rico sent me this – what every man wanted for Christmas but didn’t get

You also may have noticed that the site was completely screwed up for 24 hours yesterday (or maybe you didn’t ) This was due to my hosts upgrading to php 4.4.1 which broke ExpressionEngine.  It forced my hand in upgrading EE to the new version so it wasn’t all bad.