Nelson

After giving our car a new heart, we took the beautiful Lewis Pass highway to Nelson. We even randomly stopped at a lookout where I remember camping 5 years ago.
I do miss Akaroa already and I'm sure Jon misses doing his "bloke work." Instead of guy here they say bloke, so Jon likes to consider himself a bloke. While we were at Mark and Wendy's we never quite knew what we would be doing from one day to the other. Jon asked if he could do some "real bloke work, like chopping down trees and killing sheep." He then proceeded to throw a lamb over a fence later that day, nearly breaking it's legs. I got to do some bloke work as well, hauling logs and burning tea trees. But now it's back to city life.
So far it's true what they say about Nelson always being sunny. It's small beach town at the top of the south island. For the past few nights we stayed in a nice hostel near town and the woman there directed us to her friend who rents out rooms as well. It's up on a hill, overlooking the ocean and hills. We always seem to find the nicest views. So at the moment we are job hunting and apartment hunting. If only there were Craigslist, then it all would have been taken care of within the first day. Hopefully we will have some good news to come in the way of the job search. Jon might be stuck working in the apple factories.

(I promised Jeff Rinkov,Esq. that I would give him a shout out. He goes in to his law office every morning and the first thing he does is check the blog. Good on ya, mate.)