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Hello friends,

We are very sorry we have been absent for a while.  The past few months have been very crazy for us and our humans.   We are going to quickly catch you up on everything that’s been going on.  As of tomorrow, we should be able to get back to blogging as usual.

Well we sort of disappeared from blogging in November.  And it all started here….

Laura went jet setting across the country for a week.  Visiting Christchurch and Queenstown for work.  At the beginning of this travel she became unwell with a head cold :(   this turned into a sinus infection…

Now Laura should have taken time off work.  But she could not, she was given an opportunity that she wouldn’t miss no matter how sick she was!

After returning from her jet setting, she had one day off and then traveled to Hamilton.  To meet and work with this man…

You must excuse her silly face!!

So, drugged up with nasal spray and Flu medication, she got up on stage with Cesar Millan and demonstrated what a calm submissive dog and a calm assertive handler looks like.   We really like Cesar Millan, Laura was so glad she got to meet him and see him work in person. (Yes we know many people don’t like him, but Laura does and seeing him work with the dogs and how they react to him was amazing).  What Laura really likes about him is that what he talks about can apply to everyone no matter what trainer and techniques they like and use.

Anyway, after making an appearance in Hamilton with Cesar, Laura returned to Auckland the same night.  To return to work the next day…

Going to work the next day didn’t work out so well.  Her sinus infection had gotten much worse.  Her whole face was now aching :S  Off to the doctors she rushes, she couldn’t be really sick for her appearance with Cesar Millan in Auckland!!!

Medication prescribed, feeling a little better the morning of Cesar.  Day off work to recover.  Laura is getting ready to go out to Cesar waiting for Marc to get home from work. 5min before Marc and Laura are due to leave, Laura’s cell phone rings…

Marc: “Laura I’ve been hit by a car” !!! :shock:

Marc rides a motor bike and 2min away from home a car pulled out from a driveway and T-Boned him.  His leg had been squashed between the car and the motor bike, luckily there was nothing else injured. So off we go to the hospital following the ambulance.  We’d never been to the hospital before… well the car park anyway.

Luckily, Laura didn’t have to miss Cesar Millan, Marc’s parents came to sit with him.  And he was home that evening.  But wait that’s not the end.  All of this happened in the period of 1 1/2 weeks.  We’ve been gone for longer than that…

So Marc is seriously injured and has to have his leg up for the next week, but Laura and her mum had made plans months ago to go on a holiday to Wanaka, two days after Marcs accident!!  Who was going to look after us?  Laura was VERY stressed.  luckily her sister Sally came to the rescue and said she would exercise us! :D

Laura had a lovely time in Wanaka, it’s in the South Island of New Zealand and very beautiful, Laura’s Aunt and Uncle live down there.

So Laura flies back from Wanaka, to turn her cell phone on and find a message from Marc saying…”I’ve gone to A&E, the graze on my leg has turned into a massive infection.

It had, for the next 4 days we had to visit the local doctors so Marc could have his wound dressing changed.  On the 4th day how ever, the doctor thought that he might have cellulitis on the top of his foot.  Off we go to the hospital we go again…

Marc has now been admitted into hospital for the next 4 days, poor Laura is back at work and rushed off her feet!  Don’t worry we did lots of travelling and went for plenty of walks in the dark.  We were even a hit with the hospital nurses who always came and spoke to us while we were waiting patiently in the car at the hospital!

Marc is then back home, still unable to do anything, still off work and waiting for his leg to mend. Here are some photo’s of his injury, if you have a weak stomach don’t look, but don’t worry there is no blood!

So as you can see Laura and us have been very busy up till now.  Laura and Marc have two weeks off over the Christmas and New Years break and are enjoying relaxing after the past couple of months!  We are enjoying it as well, going for new and exciting walks, meeting up with our friends, going to Christmas and new years parties!  Woo Hoo!

We think we have had a pretty great year, we have done so much it’s hard to remember everything!  We will leave you with this video of our adventures in 2011.  And hopefully 2012 will be just as fun! :)

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