Passports, Centenary's and Moving!

Good day all!
It’s been an eventful past two weeks! After days of frantically searching Catherine was able to find her passport, and the next day I was granted my New Zealand Passport! This means that we can legally attend World Youth Day!! We’ve been preparing ourselves for the countries we’ll visit by google-stalking them with interesting results. I am also in the process of teaching myself elementary Spanish with pretty dismal results. Looks like we are going to have to lean heavily on Plan B- interpretative dance!-  Wooo!
In other news, the Primary school that is connected with our parish and which both Catherine and I attended, celebrated 100 year of Catholic teaching last weekend. Considering the relative youth of New Zealand compared with countries such as France and Spain, 100 years definetly warrants a celebration! During the Centennial Celebrations Catherine and I were asked to serve coffee and tea at the Morning Tea. While it was lovely to catch up and meet new people, quite a few people attended the Celebrations (one woman flew all the way from Canada!) which meant quite a few dishes to do afterwards!
Fundraising is also going swimmingly, and we are constantly overwhelmed by the generosity of members of our community, who give freely of their time and money! It has been truly inspirational to see how the community has rallied in support of Catherine and I and we are both extremely thankful! We still have a small amount to raise yet and are in the process of some serious fundraising. Hopefully, next fortnight we will have some concrete news to share.
Finally, today marks the day that I move down to Wellington to commence my tertiary study. =( Packing my bags has made me worried about luggage restrictions on international flights, but at least I will be prepared for anything that could happen; rain, hail, sun-strike, I even packed my thermals just in case it snows during Summer/Autumn. However, my location does not hinder my involvement with the Internship Program and the Foxton/Shannon Parish! Catherine and I will be working tirelessly with our fundraising and work with in the Parish, so look forward to many more exploits!!
Have a wonderful fortnight!
Catherine and Kealagh out!

Murder, Deposits and Flights

Hey there folks! 

Yes, yes, we know.. we're late.. it's Monday not Saturday! Rest assured, this was intentional. On Saturday night we had an event, and we wanted to include you by putting it in this here blog of ours. What was this event, you may ask? Well, it was in fact a Mid-Summer Murder! Yep, you heard us.. murder, dinner, intrigue, mystery… sounds delicious doesn't it. We delved deep into the murky depths of our imaginations and created nine distinct characters. Each guest at dinner took on a character with a motive to kill the 'victim' .Kealagh, the victim, and I had a splendid time op shopping for a dressing gown to splatter with blood, and using talcum powder to give her a nice deathly glow. Everyone had a fabulous evening full of fist thumping accusations, decoy tactics and few wines.

The money we raised goes towards our fundraising efforts. Speaking of money, we recently withdrew an amount from our super secret account (that you can donate to using the info on the column to the right) in order to pay our deposits for WYD! We're getting really excited now that it's sunk in. Guys, we're totally going to Europe!!!!!!!

We have also booked flights to Auckland in order to catch our international flights. After some nice sleuthing we've discovered we'll be flying from Auckland to HONG KONG and be staying there for a few hour before flying on to Paris. In order to legally depart the country and enter others, Kealagh has applied for her passport! Yay!!!! 

We're so excited we've begun google stalking the countries we'll be visiting. Finding out who's there, what's on, where's hot, why it's important to visit and how do we buy that dress. You'll notice that we've added a countdown, top right, in order to know exactly how many days, hours and minutes are left until we leave. Make sure you vote on our poll and help us decide what's the thing we can't miss seeing in Paris.

We have more plans in the mix so check back with us soon.

Catherine and Kealagh out.