Living Like a Small Green Hairy Fruit

Meet The Team

Hi All.  This blog is mainly for family and friends but just in case anyone else out there is bored enough to read this we thought we'd best introduce ourselves.  I'm Mandie, OH's Mark and children Michaela and Andrew.

This was not our former home!  This photo was taken at Busch Gardens, Florida last November, about a month after we decided to emigrate to New Zealand.  It's one of the rare pics of all of us as it's usually me snapping away so all our holiday pics look like I wasn't even there!

We always fancied living in Florida so I really don't know how we came to choose New Zealand - especially now that we've sampled an NZ winter in a super-non-insulated-non-heated NZ house (Florida would have been sooo much warmer!).

I am a great believer in there being a plan for everyone. I think people end up being where they are supposed to be and that if something is meant to be then it will all work out ok.  I think that God has a plan for everyone and that despite having freewill we will be guided to follow the paths we are supposed to tread.  Mark, on the other hand, thinks that's the biggest load of crap he's ever heard, but then he worships the God of Kentucky Falling Down Water, known to earthly mortals as Jim Beam, and the God of Very Fast Shiny Cars Racing Around A Track 50 Odd Times aka F1 (although not Bernie Ecclestone cos he's a tosser!).

Either way we seem to have had a fairly smooth journey and we would both admit that whilst we have no idea 'why New Zealand?', we both know it just 'felt right'.