New New Zealand Update

Here is an idea on how expencive things are out here...


Near my home...


















Things are going quite well for us out here. Zoey and I found new jobs. We now work in a town of 300 called Manapouri. The Manapouri Lakeview Motor Inn is our new home. The MLMI has a bar, a bistro, a liquor store, and a motel. We sleep in a motel room. Number 608 is home. I work in the bar, mostly at nights and Zoey does house keeping during the day. So far we like it. The locals here are nice. They have a strong Kiwi accent that makes for some confusion when they order drinks. They order lots of drinks with lemonaid, and expect 7 up. The funny thing beeing we sell proper lemonaid.

The room were in is kinda depressing. I feel like all we do is watch TV. TV isn't so bad on a couch but in a bed I just feel like a slob. Eating in bed and what not.

Work is slow right now but should pick up in a few weeks. So I'm looking forward to that.

Pictures From New Zealand

One of the many hundred of thousands of Sheep out here


Super great beach in Dunedin


This is a Yellow Eyed Pinguin. The rarest in the world


Her and her chic


This is Elephant Kelp. It groes upto 3 feet a day


Petrified forest


Gorgeous huh? all of NZ looks like this


Where is Zoey?


I like this one. Reminds me of something my friend down under would take.


Rain forest in Te Anau


Ferns!!!


In the same forest


I like this one... I think it will make it on someones wall someday :)


View from the boat


Why so sad?


This is in a town called Manapori.Looks like Colorado


This looks like an optical illusion

We Quit!!!

O Niagra Falls Cafe, you will be remembered....

It was nice for us to find jobs at with the same employer, too bad we didn't really enjoy the work. Zoey was hired as a server and I was hired for kitchen help. We didn't exaggerate any about our working past. I told the owners, Amanda and Trevor, that I had heaps of fast food experience and told them about the menu and work I do in Sturgis every year. They were more than happy to give us jobs.

The sleeping arrangements turned out to be ok. We were charged only $40 for the two weeks we stayed. We lived in a hostel, with the other cafe workers and some German wwoofers.

The work seemed to be fine at first. The only problem I foresaw in the first days of "training" was I wasn't actually being trained. I was too often told what to do, without being shown what to do, leaving a lot of things in question. I had a lot of baking to do. I have never baked. They treated me as if I should know this, but I didn't.

The non-training lead to much problems at work for both of us. This and a long with the fact the area we lived in was so desolate and boaring lead to the decision to leave.

Quiting wasn't a problem. We quit with two days notice and received our check right there and then. We made about $2000 in the two weeks we were there

No worries. We are now off to rare glow worm caves with possible scuba diving in the future. Back in the car and in the tent.

Life is good!