New Camera!

These photos are all taken on my new camera that I will be bringing with me to India! Hopefully it will be better at capturing colour and excitement than my old one.

We have been really lucky to have our relative's friends over for the weekend, it is always so nice to meet new people, and one's that you know you will continue to stay in touch with.

Full credit goes to Laura A for the photo on the right. We took these on our walk through the salt-marsh!

Malibu! He is very posh.

Beautiful sunset from the Strand!

We were taken out to De Bier Haus for dinner last night by our new Aussie friends!

Lisa, Jack and Chris - these people are so awesome!

Yay for family shots! (Minus the cow-milking brother).

Bretzels! Yummmm.

My yummy mummy. I love this photo of her!

Chris' epic mussel pot!

It was sad to see this family off, but they are continuing with their journey through NZ, and then onto America, Vietnam and more! We will definitely be catching up with them in the future.

4 more sleeps!

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My week in pictures (so far):

This is the funniest/cutest thing to see every morning on my way to work with mum - this dog always has booties on, last week they were red. The week before another colour.  

Proof I have been working hard at the timber mill - I have worn through two pairs of these in the past three weeks!

I love that NZ has a natural christmas tree! The Pohutukawas are so beautiful right now.

Enzo and I chilling in the sun.

Getting tans.

Larissa's skills at photography :)

I love this flat! I want to live here again...

Larissa being a creep and stalking people down with binoculars. Walk past the flat, I dare you.

My favourite part about being back in Auckland? Being ridiculous with this chick. She's going to hate me for putting these up :)

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It is so lovely to be home.

I have just spent part of the afternoon relaxing in the garden with Smokey (the cat), who has been a psycho and chasing his own tail and my feet. But now the sun is out, these flowers are just such bright colours and so pretty to look at - naturally I had to whip the camera out:

This is my amazing film camera that I scored for $2 on TradeMe. It is a Minolta Uniomat, and I am in love with it's saturated photographs it produces. You can see examples of these in my Flickr account.

Mum and I started a fitness bootcamp this week that starts at 5.45am (!) on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I didn't go to the next session, nor will I go to any further sessions... I was ill in my first and only trial after eating something bad the night before. Just became a bad experience overall. Dancing, walking and going to the gym suit me much better as forms of exercise.

Back to Auckland tomorrow to do a couple of shifts!

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