Since the last time I posted here I've spent a month in India (August; for work) and I'm in the middle of a month in New Zealand and Australia! Big things, and I have really not had much of an urge to blog about them for whatever reason, but I've been uploading lots of pics and so I highly recommend, if you really care about what I'm up to, subscribing to my flickr feed. (www.flickr.com/photos/seraph).

I didn't upload much for India pics until I got back, but I've been pretty good with getting one cameraphone pic up everyday from NZ. Unfortunately, that will have come to an end today as I jumped in the spa with my new Nokia n73 in my pocket! So that's a bummer, although I didn't lose much since I didn't even buy the phone (won it right before I left the US in a raffle :) SO, I will have to start just uploading whenever I can get a net connection. The phone charges were starting to add up anyway.

I don't really have the time to go into much pontificating on the NZ trip yet, but it's amazing so far. Sandy and I have 7 days here nearly complete already and we've had great luck at every turn (we're on the south island for the whole trip). Our glacier walk had sun instead of hail, and our trip on milford sound last night included dolphins, penguins, kayaking, a bit of rain AND sun, so we're having a blast. The big thrills are even yet to come! I have to say, even if you didn't do a trip on the water in milford sound, just the drive down is absolutely breathtaking. I swear, driving along yesterday, with a new epically beautiful landscape around every bend, I actually started to lose the ability to ooh and ahhh, I just gaped. We're in Te Anua on the south island tonight, and are about to head to a glow worm cave trip that sounds interesting. I've just uploaded a bunch of pics to flickr with a bit of commentary. Check out my australia/nz set here.