Happy Halloween-ers!

It was October 31st, the people we're staying with are half American so it felt only right that we do something to celebrate the day... What better than a shed load of confectionary on strings, fruit in water and some socks and chopsticks...? Very retro. Jordan was a Redneck, Lee a pirate, Jazz a Red Indian, Levi a gentleman Vampire - and me? The only thing left for me happened to be a Santa Suit. Ho ho ho. (Only 7 weeks away people - not so premature afterall!)

Apart from the delicious goodness of the apples, I still feel a bit sick. Here's a flavour of the evening...

Donuts on Strings: (always gotta love a greasy fried ball of dough in your face...)



The ancient and fine game of Bobbing for Apples:

...and the not so ancient bowl of sweets, dice, socks, scarf and chopsticks game... (how did Jordan get to roll so many sixes???)

Piha

Went for a little drive to a beautiful part of the west coast called Piha (Pee-Haah). It's a volcanic area so the sand changes from gold to black as the land meets the sea. And its unbelievably glittery! Maybe when its normal sand colour you just don't see it as much, but it really is like walking on glitter. There wasn't much there other than the sea, sand and rocks but we whiled away the afternoon with walking, talking and ice-cream eating. Perfect! (on that note - we're really into the caramel Magnums at the moment - if you haven't tried them yet, I thoroughly recommend them! Those of you in the northern hemishphere - Whack on your central heating, throw on a bikini, stuff a magnum in your chops - and you're away!)

We are continually amazed at these little places we come across that are pretty much in the middle of nowhere, have loads of houses and a sizeable population and yet manage to exist without a local shop! I found myself wondering if Tesco would deliver this far... Here's some photos.

Ad Campaign

This is Lee helping out with an Ad campaign. Think he missed his calling! But I can't for the life of me work out which note he's playing?! The campaign was for a series of video ads for on the web. Lee and two other guys spent a couple of days creating these stills to be used in the video. The tag line was "improving business through technology" and eventually this picture ended up with Lee stood in front of a very large speaker. Get it? Get it?? A busker improving his business with the use of inordinately large piece of technological equipment??? They were all in this vein. But I just like this photo - Lee in a very un-Lee situation! (I am guessing the street was in a very quiet location so he wasn't too embarrassed!)