Inspire(d)

Inspire was pretty awesome!!! That there is the first night's music practice with Wayne. Who is absolutely LOVELY. He's just amazing, great guy, funny and with a real soft heart :)

It was just amazing. I just about lived in church for two days. But I think we all did. It was so exhausting but by the end of every night you were just so hyped that you didn't really want to go home and have it all end.

It was, without a doubt, inspiring. God was so, SO present. In fact, that first night I had this picture of him just walking into the auditorium. Which was pretty cool!

I love stuff like that!

I think this was the first Inspire that I felt so busy! I got to be go-to powerpoint person - which was pretty cool. And it was HUGE for me personally as I absolutely love Wayne and Libby as Parachute band has had a HUGE impact on my faith.


Friday night. What an AWESOME time. I honestly feel so much closer to God. Which is pretty cool as I've felt pretty distant lately. And for me it was just such a great experience and it made me think about all the things I want to do and how I've been so confused about what to do lately.

And I finally have peace. :) Which is awesome.

I also have lots of new music. And I feel like singing and playing again. Which is pretty cool. It's like I have a purpose again.

Awesome :)

What is the world coming to??

In the news tonight: Don Brash - Sex Appeal?

Um. What??

The intrepid reporters of 3 News have taken to the streets in order to establish if the National Party leader has sex appeal.

Hot off the press people, hot off the press :P

Ugh.

Scared Scriptless

We FINALLY managed to get tickets to Scared Scriptless last night. (Collectively we rung the Court Theatre 7 times before we got through!)

It was fantastic!! I love improv comedy and theatresports is always fun. It's like our very own Who's Line is it Anyway?. AND at $27 for two people it's a pretty damn cheap night out - you also feel a whole lot more cultural when you compare it to going to the movies every weekend!

That and the Court Jesters are pretty damned funny!!

All in all a really good night. Yesterday I bought 3 new Cds (Michael Jackson #1s, The Best of Johnny Cash and the Diary of Alicia Keys) - for $30, new jeans, new undies (!!), picked up my photos and just generally spent a lot of money. I love shopping. And days off work. (Muwhaha) Plus it's always funny to go shopping with the bf. He's fun. AND we had really really good Indian for dinner. Fun times...

The hangi's tonight. I don't really want to go - but we already have tickets. And I feel the need to support Mel. (Especially in the peeling potatos department...) So we're going. It should be a reasonable night to tell the truth. I just don't like feeling like I have to make conversation with so many people. :P

The boy's going to town afterwards. (I am not. Can't be bothered to tell the truth. Plus he's going with the friend who doesn't really like me...)

AND...I finally emailed the D&A. They're sending me out a prospectus shortly. Which will be good. I might be going to design school!!! Exciting!!!

relationships

...are hard.

And thus ends my wisdom for the day :P

Hahaha...listening to the tenor cd again. It's like Jem's in the room!!!

Snow trip...

Okay. So I promised photos. *taps fingers while uploading*

I've already mentioned the snow trip was fantastic. We had awesome weather - and to tell you the truth I was just so happy that it got off to a great start as the boy had been the one organising it and he'd been working oh-so-hard.

Which is why when the actual day of planning (ie- saturday) didn't go according to plan I knew he'd be upset. (As he's a perfectionist like me!)

But it was AWESOME on Sunday. It was possibly the BEST weather we could have had - especially given that the forecast wasn't actually that good.

We started of at Gnomes so we could pick up ski gear for about 40 odd people.

They hooked us up with these awesome SINNER pants...lol.

They were a great source of amusement given that we are a church group etc etc. AHAHA...we're so funny. (Yeah, you probably had to be there...)

THEN...after a lot of driving uphill and close to the edge on a rocky gravel road....we made it to Hutt. It looked a little like this:

Seriously...isn't it GORGEOUS??? It was just so pure and white and it was sunny and just utterly utterly FANTASTIC. *sigh*

See...you can see the ski lifts and all the little people travelling in the chairs. So COOL.

I have to admit it was a bit of a mission gathering everyone together and making sure that everyone knew what was happening. AND Hutt screwed up and issued us lift passes for the day before (i.e - Saturday) instead. So we had to feed everyone through AGAIN for lift passes and line them up to get ski/snowboard boots & gear.

Loui makes sure people are tagged and lift passed and good to go...

Us upon arrival. All getting used to the cold and sunshine.

Then we all hit the slopes! Well...technically speaking. Those who actually knew how to board/ski hit the slopes. The rest of us resigned ourselves to lessons!!! They went for about two hours and were only semi-useful. Possibly because there were so many of us. (For example I found out I was goofy half way through the day only after Isaac checked...)

Us attempting to learn the art of snowboarding...lol. Lots of fun. And slipping and sliding. The boys were so impatient though. I'd hate to be their teacher in school!

Chilling out on the beginners slope. We're so cool!!!

I fell over so many times it was scary. Snowboarding appears to use all sorts of muscles that I didn't even realise that I had. Let alone knew how to use!! (And I still don't know how to use them!)

Lunch time!! Loui's yellow pants were ALSO a source of endless amusement! Lol. We attempted to call our group "The Yellow Brigade".

The food was seriously good. Something about exercise builds up a serious appetite. I was so hungry and thirsty by 12.30 it seriously wasn't funny. This is probably the reason why I never really exercise!

Random action shot of me. Don't I just look so cool????? I'm like totally a snowboarding chick!

And finally...we managed the ski lift. So, for your viewing pleasure...here's the view from the top. I warn you...it's seriously AWESOME and AMAZING....

Pretty cool, right?? I think it's awesome :)

Snow

I think I have a cold. :P Keep sneezing. NOT FUN.

BUT snowboard on the weekend...well, firstly it's HARD. Seriously. Could not believe how difficult it was. The boy spent like an hour just trying to teach me to stop. (Stopping is important if you don't want to fall over...) But it is fun - or at least I can see how it would be fun if you actually knew how to do it properly.

I think I've made a promise to go back one day :)

Plus...it was SO HOT on the mountain. Couldn't believe it!!!

Pictures to follow...