Craig
Well his full name is Craig Stuart Dalton.
He is 25 years old and was born in Feilding, New Zealand.
His dad was in the Air Force so they moved around alot
while he was growing up.
His main hobby before meeting me was Motorcycle Racing
and drinking Lion Red beer.
Sue & Craig together.
We met at a wheelchair ten pin bowling competition on
2nd March 1996.
Craig asked both my parents and his Mum and Stepfather
if we could get engaged on 27th April 1996 then came and asked me . Of
course I said yes.
We lived together under my parents home in my flat for
9 months.
Then september 1996 we moved to a rented house in Birkdale
where we lived with flatmates.
In july the owner of the house we were renting decided
to sell the house so we started to look for a new place to live .
A suggestion was made that we may be able to buy a house
if we move to the country in the Waikato region. This is 1hr and 30min
drive from where we were living presently.
My mum (sues mum) got on the phone and a real-estate
agent in Morrinsville sent us some of there local lists of houses for sale.
As a family we decided to go down for the day and have
a look around at what kind of houses we could afford.
On this day we looked at many houses in both Morrinsville
and Te Aroha but only one stood out and that was in a little place called
Waitoa.
Waitoa
This is a small country area which has been built around
the Waitoa Anchor Milk company.It is about 10 kms from Morrinsville one
way and Te Aroha the other way.
Our house is a three bedroom brick home .
We are on a 1/4 of an acre of land.
We back onto farm land and have a farm across the road
as well.
The farms are dairy cow farms.
our friend Alan Wakelin, Craig and Sue