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susandennisMy friend, Scott, is likely coming for a very quick visit weekend after next. Very shortly after I launched my first web page in 1994, I got an email from Scott. I had just come back from my first trip to New Zealand and was planning my second and talked about it on my website. I actually even found about 4 web pages from New Zealand that I linked to. At the time, Scott was a bachelor banker - tolling away in a small Westpac branch in Dunedin (on the South Island) and was just shocked to find a woman from Seattle with a web page that mentioned New Zealand.
We struck up an email friendship that was pretty darned tight (but never romantic) for a lot of years. In 1996, he made his first trip to the U.S. and came to see me. Except for maybe one trip to Sydney when he was a kid, I think it was the first time he'd every been out of New Zealand and on a jet. The trip was his idea and I have to say that I was a little leery. Plus he was planning to stay here, with me, for three weeks. Keep in mind this was a guy I had never met. But, he came and we had a fun visit.
He was amazed and astounded at nearly everything American and it was fun to show him everything. The one thing he really wanted to do was go to Canada. He could not get over how very cool it would be to drive to another country. So we drove up to Vancouver for the weekend. This was before the border crossing got so belabored and it still took us several hours to cross because we had to stop and take pictures of him in America and then pictures of him at the border and then pictures of him in another country... so he could prove to his friends at home he did it. It was pretty hilarious.
Anyway... he went back home and worked his way up the food ladder at Westpac and got moved to Wellington. Once there he started wife hunting and found a good one. He and Julie got married in 2004. I made them an online wedding album.
Once he found Julie, the emails between me and Scott became more of a once every few weeks thing instead of a couple of day - totally understandably.
Now he's a big shot at Westpac and works as much in Sydney as in Wellington. Some big project he's working on needs him in New York City next week and he asked if he could stop by here for a day or two after. It will be fun to see him again and fun for him to see all the changes around here - inside and out. Last time he was here, there was no Safeco Field, no Qwest Field - there was the Kingdome. Four of the major buildings I now see out my terrace were parking lots and dump sites. There have been some changes in the last 10 years.
Plus, he'll be the very first person to sleep in the fish bed! Wonder what Betty's going to think about that...
We struck up an email friendship that was pretty darned tight (but never romantic) for a lot of years. In 1996, he made his first trip to the U.S. and came to see me. Except for maybe one trip to Sydney when he was a kid, I think it was the first time he'd every been out of New Zealand and on a jet. The trip was his idea and I have to say that I was a little leery. Plus he was planning to stay here, with me, for three weeks. Keep in mind this was a guy I had never met. But, he came and we had a fun visit.
He was amazed and astounded at nearly everything American and it was fun to show him everything. The one thing he really wanted to do was go to Canada. He could not get over how very cool it would be to drive to another country. So we drove up to Vancouver for the weekend. This was before the border crossing got so belabored and it still took us several hours to cross because we had to stop and take pictures of him in America and then pictures of him at the border and then pictures of him in another country... so he could prove to his friends at home he did it. It was pretty hilarious.
Anyway... he went back home and worked his way up the food ladder at Westpac and got moved to Wellington. Once there he started wife hunting and found a good one. He and Julie got married in 2004. I made them an online wedding album.
Once he found Julie, the emails between me and Scott became more of a once every few weeks thing instead of a couple of day - totally understandably.
Now he's a big shot at Westpac and works as much in Sydney as in Wellington. Some big project he's working on needs him in New York City next week and he asked if he could stop by here for a day or two after. It will be fun to see him again and fun for him to see all the changes around here - inside and out. Last time he was here, there was no Safeco Field, no Qwest Field - there was the Kingdome. Four of the major buildings I now see out my terrace were parking lots and dump sites. There have been some changes in the last 10 years.
Plus, he'll be the very first person to sleep in the fish bed! Wonder what Betty's going to think about that...
