The quaint town of Picton

The town of Picton and the harbor.  The big boat out on the water is the interislander ferry which we will take to get back up to the north island.
The harbor in Picton, on walks around the harbor we've seen dolphins playing with sailboats.  They are awesome to watch jumping out of the water and racing with the boats.
The courtyard of the Villa, we spent a lot of time in the hot tub and Johnny spent too much time on the x-box that sits to the left of this picture.
The Van we drove to pick people up from the ferry.  No power steering and tricky shifting!
The Villa, an old victorian home which now has nicely trimmed roses thanks to Johnny.

Well our time in New Zealand is dwindling down, less than a month until we fly to Tonga, an island south of Fiji.  The last month we've been cleaning at the Villa, a hostel in Picton.  Johnny's been doing maintenance work outside and I've been making beds and cleaning the hostel inside. We live and work with 5 other people which has been fun and at times frustrating.  We cook for everyone once a week and serve the famous apple crumble to the guests every night.  We've met some really neat people and we are looking forward to singing karaoke with all of them tonight at a local pub.  Tomorrow we are starting at a new hostel in Picton that is much smaller, Johnny and I will be the only cleaners and we don't have to clean any bathrooms, which I'm pretty sick of cleaning.  We'll be there for 3 weeks and then we'll head up to the north island to fly out.  We'll be home before we know it!

Veltrousten (which we learned from our funny dutch friend, it means good night, unfortunately that is the only dutch word I know)

Maegen