I've been offered one but the offer was a bit rubbish - long story - suffice to say I politely declined - however I do have a few things on the go so I'm fully hoping I'll get something soon!
Still, we're keeping ourselves busy with interviews and ministry which is great!
I'm obviously getting far too old - can't keep up with all the socialising here - a four night weekend is killing me!! Just kidding, but it's great to have made so many great new friends so quickly.
There are a group of us currently organising to go to Rotorua for a weekend in April. They have a big triathlon event there and so about 25 of us from the cong are all going and entering as teams or individuals. Kz and I are both doing the 11km run/walk. So some serious training is in order. We have a great route worked out where we spend most of our time going down hill and on the flat (someone could have warned me how many hills there were in Auckland!) Its down by the marina, through the park and then finishing in style by running up this seriously steep set of 98 wooden stairs called Jacobs Ladder - I'm telling you now - it's a heart attack waiting to happen! It's a great short cut back from the city but lots of people use it to train - the other day I was coming back from an interview and there was a personal trainer there with some people making them run up and down them and then do push ups - so i obviously had to prove that even in a skirt it was no problem for me to just run up these steps and I was NOT going to stop half way up! I had to then keep going until I was out of sight and then collapse round the corner!!
So on Sunday evening we had a bbq for those going on the Xterra weekend - part of our training very much involves sitting round discussing how much we are going to train whilst sitting round drinking wine! Not everyone could make it but there are some pics of our erm.. training below!
Co-ordinated team t-shirts and we've not even reached Rotorua!
Intensive training!
Josh is swimming this year and Shi doing the 11km walk/run
Marcelle and KZ - two more runners/shufflers!
Running, swimming and cycling all represented here!
This weekend is a long weekend in Auckland. Slightly randomly, each different area gets to pick their own 'anniversary' weekend to have a day off but no-one co-ordinates it so depending on where you live in the country depends when you have your long weekend!
Kz and I are going to take advantage of it and hire a car to go down and see Bjorn and Kelly for the weekend in Tauranga, about 2 1/2 hours south of Auckland. The name of the car hire company is 'Rent-a-dent' - ha ha! And you wonder why it's cheap!
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