Happy New Year!
For us, 2005 was an eventful year. 2005 was the year ....
- that we ‘recklessly’ kicked in our jobs
- that we sold our house, got rid of our car, dumped all our gear on some very understanding, very, very good friends, and disappeared off into the sunset
- that we failed to climb a very impressive looking unclimbed peak in Nepal
- that Lea climbed (and fell off of) her first grade IV Scottish ice
- that Lea also completed her first Alpine 4000-er with a stinking cold (cheers John!)
- that Giles was entrusted with 16 teenagers for a trip to Bolivia and came back almost still sane
- that between us we visited 6 continents, 15 countries, 21 airports… which equates to 174 hours in the air!*
(*all calculated on one very rainy New Year’s day when we were stuck in a camper van in Te Anau!)
- and finally that Oscar insisted on finding new servants and after many interviews settled on Kerry & Scott. He got straight to work putting them through a strict training programme and we are told that he is now more than happy with the level of service that he receives - sorry K&S!
All in all we’ve done tons of stuff that we hadn’t even dreamed off this time last year. We’re not sure where 2006 will take us but we’re looking forward to it!
We would like to wish everyone back home a very happy new year and we look forward to catching up with you all in 2006.
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