September 1st...the first day of spring...and look what I saw...a new born lamb only 30 mins old. A lady I have been looking after in hospital arranged for me to go out to her parents farm on the way out to Bluff to see if we could see any lambs being born. This was the closest we got...triplets! Still with a bit of goo hanging off them!

Gosh! It's been like forever since I last blogged. Not too much has been happening though I've some exciting news...i delivered my first NZ baby on tuesday night...the independant midwife didn't quite make it as the lady laboured quickly and so I did the delivery...yey, to back at it!

I'm off to Hanmer Spring this weekend for a fun time of skiing and holidaying...will let you know how it goes and will post some more pictures soon.

Today was my three month anniversary...can you believe it! I can't! So to mark the occassion and celebrate my birthday from the other day, I took a road trip to Queenstown and spent the afternoon there...it was great...my favourite place at the moment is the snow capped mountains. 

The night of the Gore Pressie Ball...Friday 17th July...don't we look gorgeous. We had so much fun!

New Zealand Earthquake Report - Jul 15 2009 at 9:22 pm (NZST)

Magnitude 7.8, Wednesday, July 15 2009 at 9:22 pm (NZST), 100 km north-west of Tuatapere.

Quake Details

Information about this earthquake:

Reference Number	3124785/G
Universal Time	July 15 2009 at 9:22
NZ Standard Time	Wednesday, July 15 2009 at 9:22 pm
Latitude, Longitude	45.75°S, 166.58°E
Focal Depth	12 km
Moment magnitude	7.8
Region	Fiordland
Location	100 km north-west of Tuatapere 100 km south-west of Te Anau 160 km north-west of Invercargill 300 km west of Dunedin

This is an update for the earlier posted earthquake. Note the change in magnitude. This earthquake was widely felt in the South Island and as far north as Taranaki.

The quake was 6.6 on the richter scale and came from fiordland. We are still getting aftershocks here and it's about 40 minutes ago since I first felt it.

WE JUST HAD AN EARTHQUAKE! That was scary. It's 2132 here and at 2127 the earth started to shake and the house felt like it had a pulse running through it like a wave. It wasn't violent but it definately had the place shaking I have never experienced that before! It was a little surreal seeing the blinds swaying and the candlesticks on the fireplace moving back and forward. It lasted about two minutes. The strangest two minutes I've had in a long time. Oh, here it comes again!