From Grads to Nomads

Well, the other day we all got out into the ocean on surfboards. Of course, as rain has followed us our entire trip, we awoke to a grey day and it rained the entire day, but since surfing means getting soaked, the rain did not matter too much. The wetsuit did make it much warmer. I never did quite get up on the board, I had the last time I tried in Hawaii, but this time, I was riding it on my knees when my board got wedged in the sand when the water got shallow, and hence, my board stopped moving, but my body did not so I sort of wrenched my ankle, effectively ending my day of surfing. Kirby and Chris probably did the best, actually getting up standing, although Rob got up once as well. I found the waves here to be much harder to catch than the ones I had surfed on before, and with the constant rain, it got quite chilly outside! I was not sad to leave the beach for a hot shower after just an hour and a half!

Yesterday, before leaving Raglan, we got out golfing once more, as the day was just beautiful, with sun shining down and perfect blue skies. We had to actually play around the sheep this time, although they run pretty fast when a ball is headed their way. I will miss Raglan, as it was a fantastic place to finally get active and be outside doing tons of activities- that is my kind of place. Enough of the relaxing! After finishing with golf, we then drove to Auckland, where we are back to do some errands like picking up new airline tickets before checking into our suburb apartment tomorrow for our Christmas stay. Tomorrow our tree finally goes up!

Check back later today also, as I plan to get some pictures up when I go to another internet cafe where they have the proper software.