Friday, March 13, 2009

Settling in Blenheim

That's Cassie, the black lab, who is such a good puppy.

The pool that unfortunately we have only gotten in a few times because it is starting to cool down.


So Jordan is all taken care of and it took us to about 4 days of vineyard work before we quit.  Not a huge surprise to most of you, but it turns out we didn't care much for cutting out the diseased grapes.  We were on contract work which means we had to go at a pretty decent pace in order to make money.  But when you go at a decent pace then you miss some of the diseased grapes and the supervisor comes around and yells at you and tells you to go back and do it again.  So you have a choice, to either do it slow the first time and make no money or try to get away with going fast and then get yelled at and have to go back again and make no money.  We decided it wasn't worth the body aches to make 3 dollars under minimum wage.  So it looks like its back to cafe work for us, we just can't get enough (sarcasm).  Johnny's told me about a thousand times how much he can't wait to teach again.  Other than that we are doing great, we still love our new house and flatmates.  A couple of my friends will be here in a few days and we are going to travel around with them.  We are really excited about that!