On a cold day in Wellington...

Bean, Bean
You're so cute
The more you eat
The more you poop!

That was not by me, but I will take credit for it! Na it was Nathan, we found it on the fridge after he left and I say it's a work of art.

I finished my portfolio for my placement today. Yay! It was really frustrating at the end and I sent a *wrongly* angry email lecturer and she interpreted it waaaaaay worse than I thought she would. Oops! Sorry Miranda!

Tomorrow we are driving up to Rotorua for a Jongenelen family reunion. Will stay in a motel and come back on Sunday. Thanks Sophie (again) for looking after Beanie for us :)

Today Adrian and I went to the travel agent in Johnsonville to talk about our honeymoon. Yay! We have 95% decided to go on a cruise around the Hawaiian islands and Adrian is v. excited, singing songs about cruising etc. Except that we think we've found out we could do it way cheaper ourselves, on the internet, rather than going through the travel agent. The ultimate betrayal!

Which led me to think about the fact that although I made this blog, in 10 months time my name won't even be Claire Vanstone anymore! Crazy. O well I'm sure we can still use it!

I'm looking forward to having crazy Dutch name, although will miss crazy English name. Could keep both, but Vanstone-Jongenelen is a bit of a mouthful! And will take even longer to spell out than either alone! At least Jongenelen is obviously foreign and I can forgive people for asking me where it's from... not like:

Crazy person who doesn't know me: "Vanstone... is that Dutch?"
An exasperated me: "No, you idiot, stone is not a Dutch word so how can Vanstone be?"

Grr. Also, it's one word. ONE word.

Also from Balderdash:
Beestings: Scottish word for cattle.

Another photo or two for you to enjoy... Me in December. And the other one... isn't it great?! I'm so proud. I took it out of the window of a 4 seater Cessna! It's Bridal Veil Falls near Raglan in the Waikato. Makes you wanna visit huh??

Awesome. Wish me a good drive and (at least half-) decent weather please! Love you all xxx

Are these too long? I don't know... this blogging is new to me...