Hello Friends, Hello Family.
Its been ages since I last wrote in this thing so let me try and catch you up on what we have been up to.
We had a good Christmas day with good food and conversation; we didn’t go anywhere for a holiday this year unfortunately but maybe next Christmas we will.
We had a decent sized snowfall with about 2 feet of snow on our yard and in some places 4foot snow drifts and that was just from one night of snow; you can see photos of this by going to http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottjess/sets/72157603642985813/
I was made redundant from my job 1st of January which sucked big time especially after having 2 weeks off non paid in december due to lack of work with the company I was with.
Jess was given a temporary redundancy 31st of January and started work again last week which is great.
I have had to quit the Apprenticeship due to lack of work within the construction sector in Reno but I received a job offer with the cable tv company I previously worked for last week so I took that offer and will be starting work in a week.
Nevada as a state has a pretty good unemployment compensation plan which is worked good for me and Jessica while we were not working BUT unfortunately the company is not liable to payout a bunch of weeks worth of wages balloon payment like they do in NZ.
A couple of weeks ago Jess and I went to San Fransisco to go to the San Fransisco kiwi club meeting which was held at the New Zealander Restaurant in Alameda; we had dinner with about 12 other kiwis and their spouses either American or kiwi, I had a Steak Pie and Jess had a Ham And Cheese toastie…. yummm
The Saturday morning after dinner on the Friday night in Alameda we parked our Jeep in the little suburb on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge and walked across the bride into San Fransisco with all the other tourists; we spent the day walking around window shopping and taking in the city life before catching a taxi back to our jeep and driving home. To see the photo please visit… http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottjess/sets/72157604362713886/
If you want to get a hold of me or Jess please give us a ring (or text us) at (03)9748012 it is a Dunedin number and wont cost you anything to ring us unless you live outside of Dunedin.
Amazingly enough that is all the updates I have for you for the last three months; maybe the next months will be a bit more noteworthy 
Have a great week.
Scott & Jessica
