woo hoo! today is my birthday!! but wait that means i'm another year older and another year closer to 30 than i am to 20. whats that all about? i don't like the idea of that. plus it's alot harder to explain to your parents why you must continue travelling instead of settling down and getting a job.

winter has finally hit paihia. it has been so friggin cold here. i mean like under blankets with thermals on and drinking hot chocolate cold. it's april. it's never been cold on my birthday before. i just don't know what to make of all this.

going out to dinner to the sugarboat tonight. that should be fun. it is one of the nicest places in town and i'm looking forward to it. the restaurant is actually an old boat that has been converted. it used to be kelly tarlton's shipwreck musuem. now its a restaurant.

we went out on the cape brett hole in the rock cruise on sunday which was fabulous. i was a bit hungover from the party the night before and the 4 hour cruise was exactly what i needed. sara, my flatmate from australia, was in town. we did it up in style - breakfast at cafe over the bay, the cruise, dinner at swiss cafe and drinks at 35 South. It was quite a night. and then i had to go to work yesterday. it was anzac day and everyone else had the day off but i had to work. whatever. its all good. at least i was paid time and a half.

alright. i better go. have some stuff to do before the big night out. quite looking forward to it actually.

-meg.