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We both enjoyed visiting Ian 's expanding family in N. Ireland , and managed to take in a big family wedding , with brisk , incessant , Irish craik ( and a fair amount of alcohol besides ) . Ahead of us is one of the super-yachts , Georgia , a big maroon giant of a thing with a $ 180,000 touch up paint job very recently completed . In March we embarked on a three-day canoe trip with a party of about ten friends . Back home we polished off a bottle of Chardonnay in the Okoroire hot pool ( number four , of course ) , took her sailing , she went off to Whakatane with a girlfriend from school . Meanwhile , back home , good use was made of her season ticket when Nikki accompanied Ian to an electrifying New Zealand Symphony Orchestra performance that culminated in Mussorgsky 's Pictures at an Exhibition , a graphic and approachable piece for Nikki , not much of a classical music buff , who greatly enjoyed the experience .