Auckland, New Zealand

Its' amazing how some people come into your life for always, I have known Daryl and Dion since they were kids running around at Sunday School across the road from where I lived.
It was so good to catch up with Daryl after almost 6 years, the last time we saw him, Emily was just born. Although we were only in Auckland for 5 days, we saw Daryl four out of the five days. I think Daryl had just as much fun showing us around his city as we did. Thanks for an amazing time Daryl and I hope we get over again someday!

Premier People around the world

D and I have had the immense privilege of meeting up with some old friends, ex Premier people around the world, we saw Dave in California, Daryl in New Zealand, Melina & Lawrence in Sydney and Zelda in Perth. On Friday at Cobblestones Pub, we will meet some more old friends and I will write a longer post about our trip soon and what everyone is up to.

Old Photos

I found these photos which were taken in Blythesdale on Christmas Day back in 1994, Daryl, Derrick, Dion, Myself and Melony spent the Christmas week-end down there!

Daryl's New Zealand

Daryl is far too busy having fun to tell us about New Zealand, but he has the most amazing photos on facebook, so with his permission I have added some of the photos here - perhaps Daryl when you have some time off from jumping out of airplanes, visiting Islands and taking photos of sheep you can let us know about your new life in New Zealand, what is a typical day like? Ay?

That's not Daryl's girlfriend by the way, it's his niece and neither is the one with the white hair. That is the most beautiful sunset picture I have seen in a long time!

FOUND

You will all be glad to hear that I found Daryl (those of you who read my blog anyhow), he is alive and well and living in one of the most beautiful countries in the world, but then again all of Gods countries are beautiful.

It's amazing how sometimes a country just keeps rearing it's head at every occasion, this year New Zealand has been at the forefront of a lot of my conversations.

Gwen's step brother Jon, got married in January to Kelly from New Zealand and after the wedding in Cape Town they moved back to New Zealand, they have subsequently had a little boy "Jack" and are very happy.

In February Wendy (my friend who lives in Oz), went to New Zealand for a holiday and told me how absolutely awesome it was.

Wee Claire (my young Irish friend) who had been travelling round Australia last year, broke up with her Ozzie boyfriend and while travelling round Australia, met up with Scottie, who is from New Zealand - he lives in Ireland now and was not happy about the rugby!

After the rugby world cup we all decided that we were going to New Zealand in 2011 to see the next world cup.

And now I hear from Dion that Daryl is alive and well and living in New Zealand.

The only problem with New Zealand is that they are 12 hours ahead of Ireland if not more, which tends to make communication a problem, but we get by.

So there must be some kind of attraction to the place at the moment, I decided to do a bit of research and found some of the most amazing pictures. If any of you want to get hold of Daryl or Dion I have their email address but won't put them up on the blog.

Till Later .... Rose!

CONTACT INFO FOR DARYL or DION FOWLES

Does anyone out there have any contact information for Daryl or Dion? I tried rining Daryl's cellphone and it has been disconected and his email address at IBM is no longer valid, so where is he.

I did a search for Dion on the internet and see that he is now working for Alexander Forbes as their IT security manager, if anyone has any contact please could you let me know.

Rose

MISSING

Anyone seen or heard from Daryl?

His mails have been returned for the last week or two ...

REWARD OFFERED FOR THE SUCCESSFUL RE-UNITING OF FRIENDS!