Thankful for ...

Today I am mostly loving ...

• New Zealand muesli.  It removed all my doubts about this product as an appropriate breakfast.
• Kindle and the ace book the 100 year old man Who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared.  Thoroughly recommend it.
• Factor 50 sunblock goodness, complete with strange smell
• Joyous thoughts from e-mail from potential mountain guide
• Japanese cake
• NZ post office counter staff who have humour, humanity and flexibility
• i-site.  Love the trendy name for the tourist info offices, and the map of dreams purchased therein.
• Outdoor shops - Macpac is now my favorite ever.  I will not disclose how much I have spent there ... but I really needed everything.
• Weird sounding birds.  They are everywhere but why can I never see them, only hear them?
• Coffee shops on every corner, and a few between the corners.
• Last Friday before Christmas, and it's party season, only the kiwis are doing it in burning hot sunshine spilling out of bars onto the pavements.  I feel oddly curious and slightly perplexed! 

Sorry, I seem to be doing joy ... it's my thing you know.