owens clan
8th April 2007, 09:43 AM
Well we landed in Auckland on 13th March 2007 and needed a bit of a rest after travelling from Manchester Via Singapore with a 14hr stop at Changi Airport, we picked up our rental and headed for Birkenhead (motor lodge).
After sleeping for a while we went to the local New World shop and bought some supplys and then tried to go to bed again and settle the kids and ourselfs to the local sleeptimes (didnt work).
Two days later we had bought a car and took back the rental (which they gave us a credit note for 4 days which was left on the hire agrement ).
On 17th March we drove to Tauranga to our next motel from which we started to look for a house to rent (which there was a lot to choose from), but with having sold our house and car in England and had no debts anywhere it means that you dont exist so we had problems in getting a bank account and a house, when we had got them two we then had problems getting a landline and broadband,But by 2nd April everything was up and running .
I started to look for work on fri 23rd March and got an Interview for mon 26th March and had a job offer 28th March so now just waiting for a work visa as we came over on a visitors permit, the sooner the better as we need to get our 5yr old son into school so he can make some new friends , Isent my job offer to NZ House in London and they have said that is OK for me to continue our PR application from here so at the moment evey thing is moving quite smoothly, we were hopeing that there may be some people in the Tauranga,Mt Maungani,Papamoa or surrounding areas who could give us any advise on where to go and what to do or where not to go and what not to do.
This morning we hid some chocolate eggs in the front of our house for the kids to try and find which was going fine till some ids from a holiday fenal a few houses up ( from auckland not very chatty) seen the eggs and started to run round and take them all until I politely told them to put them all back except for one each as there was 4 of them , so at the moment we have got 2 very hypo kids bouncing off the walls, anyway will have to go will post again in about a month.
The Owens Clan
p.s. we have got loads of pics to show but I dont know how to get them to fit as there file size is to big (help needed please)
After sleeping for a while we went to the local New World shop and bought some supplys and then tried to go to bed again and settle the kids and ourselfs to the local sleeptimes (didnt work).
Two days later we had bought a car and took back the rental (which they gave us a credit note for 4 days which was left on the hire agrement ).
On 17th March we drove to Tauranga to our next motel from which we started to look for a house to rent (which there was a lot to choose from), but with having sold our house and car in England and had no debts anywhere it means that you dont exist so we had problems in getting a bank account and a house, when we had got them two we then had problems getting a landline and broadband,But by 2nd April everything was up and running .
I started to look for work on fri 23rd March and got an Interview for mon 26th March and had a job offer 28th March so now just waiting for a work visa as we came over on a visitors permit, the sooner the better as we need to get our 5yr old son into school so he can make some new friends , Isent my job offer to NZ House in London and they have said that is OK for me to continue our PR application from here so at the moment evey thing is moving quite smoothly, we were hopeing that there may be some people in the Tauranga,Mt Maungani,Papamoa or surrounding areas who could give us any advise on where to go and what to do or where not to go and what not to do.
This morning we hid some chocolate eggs in the front of our house for the kids to try and find which was going fine till some ids from a holiday fenal a few houses up ( from auckland not very chatty) seen the eggs and started to run round and take them all until I politely told them to put them all back except for one each as there was 4 of them , so at the moment we have got 2 very hypo kids bouncing off the walls, anyway will have to go will post again in about a month.
The Owens Clan
p.s. we have got loads of pics to show but I dont know how to get them to fit as there file size is to big (help needed please)