the one month mark

we have been on NZ soil for one month, so let's run some numbers:

3 scooters bought
2 scooter wipeouts/2 skinned knees
4 festivals attended in christchurch hagley park
3 uniforms worn fashionably
53 times kara reminds the kids to look right at crosswalks
20+ orders of "chips" consumed
1 train trip across the country
1 grateful driver the car is not a stick shift
6+ earthquakes (wee little shakes) felt
4 times alex was asked by schoolmates to say "fish and chips"
7 penguins seen in the wild
3 tubs of hokeypokey ice cream consumed
3 trips to 'the warehouse'-nz answer to target
1 bag of chicken flavor crisps eaten
1 cricket game played by kogen at school recess
2 duck feedings at jellie park from the safety of the benches
2  unexplainable geologic sites seen
1 kiwi bird named yoko ono bought by mia
1 indoor snowstorm experienced at the antarctic center
6 jars of peanut butter emptied
3/4 jar of marmite still on the counter
3 trips to the library for more books
4 videos uploaded to youtube channel "quarkstudios"
20+ different nationalities in the kids' classes
? times we thought what are we doing here?
??? times we thought how glad we are that we did this!

still alot of learning, exploring, eating, meeting, living to be done.  will do better about posting more!