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The 32nd

We have had a couple fun weekends lately - aside from both getting two colds in a row and battling the sniffles for nearly a month! Even though Dustin was home sick on his actual birthday, we had a low key celebration the Saturday after.

One of our favourite comics was in town so we managed to grab some tickets (thank goodness they added a third show!) and went out for some laughs then came back to our place for chili and cornbread and peanut butter cheesecake. The third show happened to be at 5pm so that worked well. We thought it might be weird so early but it worked well - their were less hecklers on account of less drunks haha!



Then after a week of fighting more colds, we got out for some kareoke! (That was for my birthday, just in case you weren't sure.) One of the regular bar-goers invited me to sing Love Shack with him so we closed out the evening with that.  It was quite classic because the first time we traveled through New Zealand we heard that song everywhere! Everywhere!


Last Saturday night we went to a super rugby game to watch the Hurricanes beat the Chiefs. Taranaki doesn't have its own team in that league so one of the neighbouring regions plays a couple games of the season here. Up to a couple seasons ago the Hurricanes were the home team here and many people grew up supporting them - however, the Chiefs are now the "home" team here (due to cost I think!) so it was a clash of the old home team vs the new home team. Which actually made it pretty fun because so many people were happy for either team to win so it was just a good game.

Now that we've properly celebrated our birthdays, we are tired. (Remember how old we're getting.)

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