One Year Back for real

Tomorrow marks the official day we landed in LA after a year abroad. Well, fourteen months abroad. Today marks the official one year anniversary of us leaving New Zealand. Which is why we're going back in two months. No, we're not homesick. Really.

What's changed in a year? Well, we're going back to NZ. We're moving again. Kara's going to be teaching in a classroom again. Tim's still working the same job. Yup, sounds the same as this time last year. And this time 2007. Maybe this is our true destiny: moving every couple years to a new, foreign location with more different weather. LA: sunny. Auckland: rainy. Binghamton: now with seasons!

And in celebration of that one year apart, here's some random pictures:


Us and Small Kiwi, who is no longer small


Lightning storm over Surfer's Paradise


Auckland from the top of our volcano


Kookaburra, but not in an old gum tree


Bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky... (Ursula K LeGuin)