Congratulations Sonya & Dave

Sonya and Dave were married today. Sonya is Bronwyn's cousin and she lives in New Zealand. This is the second family wedding we've missed in two weeks, with belated Congratulations! also due to another of her cousins Nathanael and his new bride Jo for their wedding last weekend. We would have loved to have been with each of them.

We knew about both of these weddings before we left New Zealand, and had thus counted the cost already I guess. From here there will probably be an increasing number of events we don't expect, each emphasising for us the distance from home. We felt uncomfortably far during the recent hospitalisation of the younger son Jacob of close friends Geoff & Adrienne. Our foundations remain firmly in Aotearoa New Zealand.