Deloitte Ball

In the US fall and winter consists of Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas/Chanukah and New Years. So this means that when warm summer comes around, its time to relax outside and enjoy the heat. In the Southern Hemisphere the summer is when the holiday's occur, so during the winter, without anything to celebrate, cold weather and dark days it's time for formals, parties and reasons to drink and dance!

Deloitte hosts the mid-winter ball in June. Its a chance for the whole office to attend a party in formal attire with great food, alcholol and dancing.

The most surprising part of it is how intoxicated everyone gets (partner and all), not just the analysts and recent grads.

We had a great time. Here are pictures of us and some of our friends.

Deloitte Ball

North Island Trip - 09'

In March-April Alicia and Bob came to visit Perin and Paul for a very special vacation in New Zealand. The trip focused on wine, cuisine and adrenaline.

Please enjoy our photos. A couple of edited videos will follow in a separate post.

North Island Trip

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Birthday Celebrations

Declining to wear our birthday suits, we still manage to have some great birthday parties!

Birthdays

Living at the top of Mount Olympus

While we dine with the pantheon of Greek gods on occasion, we don't actually live at the top of a mountain. But we do live near the top of a large hill and are elevated enough over the city of Wellington to enjoy some semi-divine views. On this day we cast our gaze upon the mortals below us...

Fog

Kapiti Island

Perin and I have numerous photos we need to upload and post on the blog, but we did get started today. Here are our photos from Kapiti Island when we went back in March.

And for those who care, it's pronounced KAP-it-ee, not ka-PEE-tee...

Kapiti Island

Prime Minister's Motorcade

Today Perin and I witnessed New Zealand's Prime Minister roll by in his motorcade.  The front of the motorcade did not have any lead cars.  It consisted of John Key driving a Mercedes by himself.  The rest of the motorcade followed consisting of one police car with two policemen in it.  They stopped at a red light.

A slightly different experience than we're used to:)