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Pam 's parents picked her up in London , and she had a whirlwind few weeks . He was surprised that although many tourists ( and quite a few chilly wedding parties ) strolled around Red Square and the Kremlin , he never heard any English or other European language . The rest of the race is a formality , and the Black Boat has a comfortable 1'25 " victory . Nikki and John had a great few days in Hawai'i en route . Sometimes called the Snow Compression Conference , Ian believes he did have a little ski this year . So off she went to hospital to have a much larger piece taken out . She has a steady boyfriend who is finishing his computer science degree at Waikato and works part-time for a small firm that does digital library consulting work centred around the Greenstone software that Ian 's group has developed ( though Ian has little to do with the firm , and nothing to do with John 's job ) . Finding no other boats there , they tucked in under the north headland to avoid the slight swell - - a mistake , as it turned out . She is really very interested in people , has a vast circle of acquaintances , and seems to know everyone , everywhere . The next jaunt was to a conference in Suzdal , a small well-preserved town near Moscow , with forty old and impressive churches and monasteries serving a population of just a few hundred . She went to France to stay with Pam 's brother Steve , who runs a hotel in a tiny village near Toulouse , and had a great time there . He has a couple of major long-term contracts and it was one of those contractors who suggested that he start up on his own and promised him plenty of work . But she 's having a great time in Sydney ; the beach ' n barbecue lifestyle really suits her . All in all we had a great time showing these country Albertans bits of our life . Overseas for fifteen months , she had a great time in Calgary ( we had left her there at the beginning of her trip on returning to New Zealand ourselves ) , London , where she lived in a house in Ealing with fifteen Kiwis , visited Ian 's family in Northern Ireland and Pam 's brother near Toulouse , and then returned to Calgary - - where ( as we reported last year ) she got her old job back , working in a health club , and seemed to be very happy . The clarinet quartet he organises has been having a lot of fun , with weekly meetings as either quartet or trio , and has also been indulging in some jazz along with the regular diet of modern classical music . We felt very special , having a production just for us on our first night 's camping . Another noteworthy event on that trip occurred in a taxi to Newark airport : they ran out of gas in the middle of a tunnel under the Hudson river during rush hour . By a strange twist of fate a partner in our doctor 's practice , a family friend , was at Great Barrier Island on her own family 's boat , and Ian was tested on arrival , diagnosed not with plain old seasickness but with a grumbling appendix , and put to bed on the hospital ship ( the doctor 's boat ) following a preliminary radio call to the marine emergency centre in case a helicopter had to be summoned during the night . Outside we have a new deck , and fresh paint-many changes . She 's working in Just Jeans in Manly , and now has a steady boyfriend living near Sydney ( a Kiwi ) who we have n't yet met . Brent and Suky have a fantastic house , which they built themselves from trees growing on their own land ( they had them cut and milled first ) , with a million-dollar view over Akaroa harbour . But the colony we visited was different : its members seemed to have a life , though not a very private one .