Humm...Hmmm

Well..it sure is amazing how fast time flies when you are not paying attention! This last year has gone so fast! I've loved New Zealand, and I love it even more because I know that we are returning in September.
This week has been a really good week, I've learned a few really important lessons.

Number One: When you are sick, let your body heal! Ugh! Definitely don't go for a jog right when your almost almost better...cause it will kick you in the butt! Ugh! Also, parasailing and canyoning don't help either...being in the cold wind, or cold river bed.....just makes things worse! Today is my tenth day of being sick...and it sucks. So....hopefully this will go this time. I am feeling better already....and don't wanna push my luck anymore.

Number Two: Taking cold and flu medicine really numbs your sensory nerve endings! So if you take them and then get in a river that is glacial fed...it may not feel so cold...but when no one else can do it, I am sure it can't be that good for your body if your the only one ok. lol. Good thing I didn't jump in!

Number Three: No matter how good or long you keep your deepest darkest secrets, they still eat you from the inside out. Me and Trav went for a hike the other day, and Trav started talking about his passions such as raft guiding and what he see's for our future. I was so moved and inspired...especially when we started talking about Regeneration, that I couldn't keep anything else inside. So it all came out, and now I just can't get over....why I didn't do it sooner. I am so scared that I am not truly regenerated......our eternal destiny is of here and now importance. I have to work on completely re-vamping so many habits, characteristics, etc that I have acquired over my life. And I am sure of only one God that can do that.......because he who began a good work in me will continue it unto completion! Can I get an Amen!

Also, I have a lot of decisions to make in the next few days too...do I continue my two study courses? What job do I need while i am back home? Should we tour Thailand? Oh...so many!

We are returning home on Feb 16th! So not long now!

Also! Travis' cousin Pepper Harlton is going to the World Cyclo-cross Championships in Belgium right away, (I actually think she is there now) ....so check it out and cheer her on : http://www.pepperharlton.blogspot.com/

Well have a good one!

To the Big J...

So we are planning on going to Japan in the next while.....our plans are as follows..back in Canada in Feb, so that is coming up straight-away! Can't wait to see everyone, but I can tell you that I definitely want and wish I could miss out on the canadian winter...yay for us though, back to minus thirty. lol. Well we leave for Frankfurt Germany on April 1st, and spend only five days there. With our round the world ticket we had to stop somewheres in Euro so we picked there, now I wish I would of picked Munich instead, but o well. And by the way...if you know anything we should see let us know, cause we have no clue! So five days there and then off to Bangkok Thailand....so I know we will def. be experiencing a culture shock. We haven't made up our minds on if we should make our way up to Shanghai or Hong Kong by ourselves...or simply tour a bit of thailand etc and then fly direct to Tokyo, Japan. It will be interesting whatever we do...and same thing...any pointers? I am nervous mostly about being in such a different culture for such a long period of time. We are leaving tokyo on September 25th...so we are def. there for a few months. Travis is just working out a job, so ....hopefully it all works out well. From what he has heard ( Which was a crazy experience: He met the guys who work for the one company he was researching for in Japan.....he picked the one company out of soo many...and then met them on a river here in New Zealand...just a few weeks ago! How crazy eh? Total blessing! ) Anyway....they've said that the base is located in quite a rural area...so there prob won't be much opportunities for me....so...we will see. I am happy to give up a few months out of my life for trav to experience his dream of working in Japan for a season. And I am sure I can be up to something...there is always something happening somewhere....lets just hope it can include me. If not...I would really like to find the guy who trained 'daniel-son' or even the master dude on Bloodsport.....I am in need of some hardcore training anyway. lol. So...then back to new zealand after the big J......so....world..here we come!

Trav-o and The Missés

Hello All!

Hope this blog today finds you well and warm! A lot of you canadians are snuggled up away from the cold outside. New Zealand is as beautiful as ever! It must be close to 30 degrees today. I love days like this...where you feel as if you have accomplished many things...and made the time count! Well...we checked out the New Zealand Seven's Rugby Competition today, lotsa crowds. New Zealanders really love love their rugby, that is for sure! Rugby sevens are great, the games only last seven minutes, have seven players, and each 'touch-down' thingy is seven points. Kicks are worth 3, I much rather these than the full regular games. Anyway then we were off to the Lake Hayes A&P Show! Exciting stuff...lol....seen some sheen, alpaca's etc. And checked out the Lumberjack show, it actually reminded me of when I was little, Edson's Canada day and various events had much more family games etc...so it was nice. Deanna drove home! And did it perfectly, I think she is ready to go by herself, and be fine! Of course there will be the odd scary moment but we all went through it! Just thinking of driving on the right side of the road when we are home...seems so foreign! Both Trav and I are getting excited to go home...and it sure is coming quick, we will be leaving a lot of the belongings we have back here in NZ, hoping to come again next September for another season! Trav and some of the guys at Queenstown Rafting think I should give raft guiding a try next season in NZ...it seems so scary, and I am fearful I will not be a natural like Trav. All the other guides have respect for him and it is nice to see. He went through his worst fear the other day actually, it could of been a lot worse...but God protected them all for sure. The Shotover River has a man-made cave from the goldminers decades ago, and they go in it when the river is lower. Well they went in and one of the rafts got jammed side ways, and travis was the second boat behind it, but because it is a cave it is all dark so it was almost impossible to see ahead. Anyway, two whole boats flipped, and the three were all jammed together. O, and I forgot to mention on the other side of the cave is the worst rapid on the river, it has a sieve on the left side which can be deadly...fortunately nobody got hurt! Anyway, they ended up having to pop two of the rafts in order to un-jam em all. A few of the rafters were shaken up but luckily fine! Travis was quite shaken up for the rest of the day, and was thankful to have all day yesterday off. His biggest fear was having a rafter caught up under one of the three rafts that were stuck in the cave, they could drown so easily that way. Thank God for everyone's safety! I guess we learn important stuff when we go through those type of situations, so whew!
Well...that's it folks...for now!
Cheerio!
Sam