Last room is painted!

We have hit a major milestone this week and have painted the last room in our plans to redo the house this year. We finished painting the lounge (what a living room is called here) this week. We are also getting new carpet put down in the lounge. I think we are going to get some carpet that has some sort of corn oil component in it and is made in the US. Just doing our part to support the US economy :) The only room left to redo this fall will be the main bathroom and we will end up hiring that done.

On Saturday we went out to watch the All Blacks. They played poorly and lost for the 3rd time in a row to the South African Springbooks by a couple points. The All Blacks almost pulled out a win in the last minute, but it was a case of waiting until much to late in the game to get their act together.

On Sunday, we went to the Auckland Home Show. The Auckland Home Show is basically like the Des Moines Home Show- you get all the vacuum salesman, home and garden construction, and miscellaneous house stuff. One interesting part was the row of homes, which was a couple streets of trailerable baches. If you buy your plot of land, you can trailer in a small bach and hook up the utilities. They pretty much look like a small mobile home. Which buy the way, we have never seen a mobile home park in NZ. Some of the baches were pretty cool with walls that would open up like garage doors to get the outdoor living feeling.

I am also starting to help with the 2010 PMI New Zealand conference planning. The conference will be held in Wellington next August. The project managers reading this blog need to plan to attend the PMI conference here next year instead of Des Moines or New York City!

This coming weekend we are going north to Kerikeri, which is a small town in the Bay of Islands. We will be spending a few days there with a group of friends coming in early November and we are going up to make the arrangements. Hopefully there will be good weather and I will have some good pictures to post next week.