Back to Work and New Zealand Cultural Training

So after the trip to Northland it’s back to work. John’s first day back was rather nice. One of the New Zealand’s Ministries held a banquet at the White House and it happened to be the Ministry Tim Webster works for. So Tim and John had a moment to catch up as John refilled the wine glasses. Marian’s work also went as well as usual.

Outside of work we started our New Zealand Cultural training and rented the first season of The Flight of the Concords. Sunday was Anzac day, Australia and New Zealand Army Corps (kind of like Memorial Day), and we celebrated by going to Te Papa, the Wellington Museum. We saw the Giant Squid exhibit and a Pompeii Exhibit. Both were pretty neat. We also went to John’s coworker’s (Kat) house for a late night roast at the end of the week. It wasn’t planned to be a late night roast but the 2.5 kg took a bit longer to cook than planned so we ate at 11:30 at night. Well worth the wait. We met James, Kat’s roommate and were plenty entertained by their shenanigans.