Well it's now 6pm (ish) here and Jen's mum and Dad, Lynn and Richard, are still awake which is pretty impressive since they arrived just under 12 hours ago after 25 hours on planes and in transit. They are both well, and brought us a couple of guifts, Jen, chocolate and pants, me some whiskey. As I've said before it really is great to have them here!!!!

On the journey down to Dunedin, where we now reside, I travelled with Richard whilst Jen sat with Lynn. This was mainly to keep them both awake, but also as whilst I got an update about Blair/the UK economy/the job-market and other (relatively) high-brow topics, Jen got to chat about the important things like Holby City & Casualty, the dog, and family gossip (one of their distant relations has gone a bit crackers apparently...)

Richard's brand-spanking (and frankly alot nicer than mine...) camera was full of piccies and videos of Oscar, which we will be uploading to our hard drive to keep when they leave. He has grown loads although still looks facially the same as when we left.

Tomorrow we're off to the Albatross Sanctuary and the Penguin (er...) Place (they obviously couldn't think of any other noun for 'home of penguins' that was alliterative...) and are going to try to see some seals on the way. Then we're off over to Millford Sounds (where alot of Lord of the Rings was filmed) which is in the Fiordland National Park. Apparently the road has just reopened after the recent earthquake caused an avalanche, although we have been warned of imminent snow showers over the coming week.