Archive - travel

Gold Coast Holiday

19 May 2009 by Mike250, No Comments (97 views)

As a somewhat delayed but much appreciated 30th Birthday celebration, mine and my brothers’ families "met in the middle" on the Gold Coast for a Movie World Holiday in May. I say middle loosely – he drove 1,400km compared to my 1,000 but we decided it was close enough and the ideal spot to try [...]

The US Masters

14 March 2009 by Mike250, No Comments (342 views)

This year the company I work for had an additional project at the US Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia. Our software was to be used on the Concessions side of the tournament; they have been using our software for 10 years prior on the Retail side. I was heading up the project alongside Matt [...]

The big surprise

17 February 2009 by Mike250, No Comments (355 views)

When Jenifer got word that her brother Jesse was getting married we knew we had to get her over to the States for the second time in a year. For a second wedding in a year.  The previous was Josiah and Sarah’s wedding, the timing on that occasion wasn’t good for a family trip so [...]

In Flight Entertainment

30 May 2007 by Mike250, 4 Comments (310 views)

Once in the air the boys were thrilled that they had their own personal TV’s to play with. And I mean thrilled. Air New Zealand’s offering was the best I’ve seen yet; TV shows, Video Games, Educational shows and a host of new and old movies all on demand. Air Tahiti had personal TV’s but [...]

Leaving USA

29 May 2007 by Mike250, 1 Comment (391 views)

We’ve just sat down in the boarding area at Los Angles International Airport. Security was relatively painless although Nevan had to have additional screening as he has his cast on. We had no worries asking the boys to take some Airborne courtesy of the new Pixie Dust Airborne, a kids candy type variety of the [...]