Visitor Here!!!

ithilwen is here! Yaaaay! Last night, she let me feed her venison with chasseur sauce, and gave me charming presents from herself and maureenlycaon. Thank you, Maureen! She was very tolerant of my giddiness over recent life developments. I'm so looking forwards to showing off New Zealand to her over the next couple of days. It's going to be an LOTR-a-rama, mixed with some non-LOTR things, too.

The Dream Fulfilled: A Dual Citizen

Could today have been any more perfect?

Well, yes. It could have been more perfect if I hadn't nearly had a car accident on the high and narrow Akatarawa Road, and if it hadn't rained while we were at a nature park called Staglands, and if a stag hadn't tried to eat my hand. But other than that life went well and ithilwen and I had a good time. We went to Kaitoke, Staglands, and Stansborough Weavers as our main stop - today was Lower Hutt day. When we got home, I found a letter.

A mere six months after I applied, I have been approved as a New Zealand citizen!

This means I am now a dual citizen of both New Zealand and the United States.

I'm very pleased - I've always wanted to be a dual citizen of the U.S. and somewhere, and the timing of this couldn't be better. Ithilwen and I went out to dinner at a Maori restaurant and had a dinner that involved tastings of five kinds of meat. I'd made our reservation in advance, but it was a very appropriate celebration, too.