The blog runs cold!

Just because we haven't made a post in two months doesn't mean that we aren't doing anything... it just means we aren't doing much. Actually, that's hardly even a half-truth: we've been very busy with all sorts of diversions, from snowboarding, to visits from friends and family, to a few good parties, to work. However, the past two months have proven one of traveling's most desparaging maxims to be true: that you cannot escape life's routines and drudgeries, no matter where you go. We still have to buy groceries, and pay bills, and put gas in the car, and find time and energy and money to have fun with whatever time is left over. It's been a good lesson though, and there is light at the end of the tunnel. Additionally, spring has sprung in New Zealand and the days are getting longer and warmer, and that alone has buoyed our outlook on life a fair bit. It turns out that cold, damp weather is not the best environment for Christine- could this prove to be the final undoing of Andrew's ongoing persuasions for her to move to Seattle someday? Stay tuned...