Burgers, Quading-Biking, and Beauty!

Thursday, Jan 17, 2013

Meet John (the red thing)

Not too much to report on, but I’ve done a few fun things today. 

#1.  We got a dry-wall lift and it is amazing.  Martin named it “John” and we LOVE John.  Makes our job SO much easier!

#2. Ate the LARGEST burger I’ve ever seen today.  Went to a place called “Fat Dogs” and it was amazing.  It’s a pretty sweet place and the have their Tomato Sauce in a squeezable tomato, and instead of giving your table a number, they give you a random item thing so they know where to bring your food. 

#3.  When grocery shopping with Chuck and his family and I had fun hanging out with Gibson as we went on adventures looking for things like parmesan cheese, soy sauce, and salsa.  This simple things are made much harder in a new store in a different country.

I finished it all!

NZ Fact of the Day:

 In Iceland they use geothermal heat to melt keep their sidewalks clear.  ( I know, I know, it’s not about NZ, but I learned it while being here)

Friday, Jan 18, 2013

It was another splendid day for various reasons today!

Reason #1: I’m done working!! We finished all the dry-walling we were supposed to, so that felt awesome. I also finally finished the pole repair from my first day’s incident. 

Reason #2: I booked my bus ticket to Auckland and accommodations at a hostel for  Sunday/Monday when I go and meet Travis at the airport!  I’m inexpressibly excited to begin traveling and hanging out with Trav in Kiwiland!  I know it’s going to be such a party!

Reason #3:  I did some biking on the super sweet trails at the camp, and wow are some of them crazy steep, but all are crazy pretty!  I wish I could properly show/describe it to you all.  Breathtaking!

Reason #4: I went quading with Martin and he showed me all the hidden away parts of the camp that I hadn’t seen yet.  It was awesome ripping around the trails on quad and again, they are beautiful! 

A secret group of cabins!

Reason #5: In the evening I hung out at Chuck’s place with his fam and Martin & Mel and we laughed and laughed over our tea and fresh cookies.  Discussion topics included:

-  A lot of knock knock jokes, (Gibby’s book initiated it and it got seriously ridiculous) - Hockey (as a Czech Martin knows hockey, rare to find someone like that in NZ),

- Animal intelligence (one guy created a dispenser that put out a treat for a crow if they put in a coin and the crows rapidly learned how to do this, so he started raking in $200-$300 a week from the sharp eyed crows!)

So yeah, it’s been great, and  is getting even better each moment.  I praise God often as I see the beauty around me and get to experience the various things that come up each day.  I am truly blessed.