Dunedin in Summer

Windy Dunedin
The weather in Dunedin isn't always as good as our visitors might think, but this was actually a really really windy day and we had a look at the sea.


Graduation parade

Twice a year it's graduation time in Dunedin, we watched some of the graduates who have just finished their studies, parading through the city to their ceremony.



  

Tom's visit of the Antarctica Center in Christchurch

On a business trip, Tom had some hours to spare in Christchurch waiting for a connection flight, so he visited and was amazed by the Antarctica center there!

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Garden and other little things

November

 Christmas decorations

January









   

Oz trip - Whitsundays

In October we were again off for a quick Australia trip - the Whitsunday Islands were the destination. We landed on Hamilton Island, took then a ferry to the mainland (Airlie Beach) and spent some time there before going on a 2-night sailing cruise. We enjoyed a trip to whitehaven beach (the purest sand in the world), snorkeling, cruising ...

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Water activities

Surfing course

We did a 2 day surfing course from the Uni's recreation center. The water was freezing cold, but we actually really enjoyed it - "Wasserratte" Tom obviously the most!

Sailing course

Another watersport was tested by us via a course of the uni's recreation centre: Sailing! It was a great experience which we will repeat for sure ... at one with the wind! :)

Paua diving

Tom went with some guys from work to dive for "Paua" for dinner - and successfully brought home several of those mussel-like shells.








     

Parties and other festivities

Let's start with all the things that were to be celebrated in the last few month, and some other occasions that had less obvious reasons:

Rugby World Cup
We have of course also joined in the Rugby-Crazyness that captured all NZ during the Rugby World Cup. We went to the Ireland-Italy match here in Dunedin's new stadium and joined some friends at a BBQ before. As you can see on the pictures almost every one was supporting Ireland who also won the game in the end. But after 6 or so weeks of nerve-wrecking Rugby-watching NZ's All Blacks won the World Cup and NZ was happy ever after ... (or at least for the next 4 years)!

Tom's 28th Birthday
We celebrated with a Cordon bleu dinner!

Melbourne Cup

Tom went to the horse races with hit boss and was raving afterwards about all those "hot chicks" ;)

"Betriebsausflug" with Farra

Tom's company organized a charity trip with the Taieri Gorge Railway and took Luci, Erica, Noelia and Erica's brother along!

Terminator Party

Tom is sometimes called "Arnie" at work - whether it is for his muscles or accent remains open. But it inspired us to invite some of his colleagues for a "Terminator Party"!

Christmas-Party in Luci's lab

Luci's 30iest

Tom had organized a surprise party with some Dunedin friends on the evening of my birthday! Thanks for the fun and yummy food!

Now this was quite a while ago!

It has been quite a while since I put the last pics online, but now I've finally gotten around to it, and here they come!