You put your left leg in; you put your left leg out

You do the Hokey ...???

Never have I been in such a heated argument (not involving politics or religion) where everyone had a different answer and everyone was certain he/she was right. So, what comes after Hokey?

Well, in New Zealand - we'll call this #4 of the list of upside-down things here - the answer is Hokey Tokey. When clearly, it is Pokey. Actually, that's only true in North America. In the U.K., claims Claire, it's Cokey.

Whatever you'd like to call it, I think Claire and I agree, it feels like we have spent our first six weeks in Auckland doing the Hokey Pokey. Since our last post, Claire's started work, I've found a job with the auckland district board of health, we've furnished our flat, received all of our stuff from Lonodn, and just yesterday bought ourselves a car. I've also played in two concerts with the Auckland Symphony (pictured above the lobby before our concert and the full choir and symphony), and we've had our first house guest, Sejal, who has a few more months of travel ahead of her before returning to London.

Unfortuntately, the beautiful pictures are a bit hard to come by for this post, as we've spent more time in Auckland's variety of discount shops (The Warehouse, Mitre 10, and Briscoes) than visiting the many natural beauties of New Zealand. Although, after an interview at Villa Maria (pictured), Claire and I went back to sample thier wines and pick up a few bottles at the big wine sale.

Now that we're nearly settled, Claire is taking me away this upcoming weekend in our new car (pictured, our 2005 Honda CRV) to a surprise destination as a belated birthday present. So next time around, we should have some more interesting photos.

Hopefully the weather will be good for us. Sun and showers seem to run on a 30 minute cycle here some days. Usually the sun is out just long enough to lure us out to get soaked by the next shower that comes along. The benefit, I suppose, is that everything is green and we often have rainbows (pictured from our kitchen porch).