Hey guys!
Lots has changed since the last blog post! The owners of the solscape have decided to quit the WWOOF'ing, so now we just work for 2 hours a day to pay our rent.. it's wonderful! The owners have also asked Andy and I if we will stay on until the end of Dec and work for them! Andy has been making beds, bedside tables and using his building skills around the solscape, and, I clean toilets! There will be some paid cleaning work for me when it gets busy! I also have started working up the hill at a B&B doing yard work and cleaning! So it looks like we will be spending our Christmas in Raglan, and thats just fine with me! We still have non of our own pictures but i've stolen some to show you where we are living! In the pictures with the train cars we live in the third one on the left. The other is the inside of the train car and the view from where we live.
love you all

Daily Diary

Dear Diary,
Today was our third day being W.W.O.O.F.ers (willing workers on organic farms). Recently we have shoveled Chicken Shit (otherwise known as poo), Swept Cement dust, and de-caged the "free range chickens". We were both a little confused to see that the chickens had been fed compost that had chicken breast and eggs in it. Andy continues to build furniture out of Remu, an extinct hardwood species, worth it's weight in Gold, He is paid the equivalent of a staggering $7/hour Kiwi. As you can see we are learning tons about organic farming. Despite our dire work situation and lack of funding to extend our quiver, our WOOF mates are great company. We now have a cook/union delegate, prior to this we had been working two hours a day each for our food, one day we were given a loaf of bread, 4 eggs, a block of cheese and a few tomatoes, there were ten of us.
So we have survived thus far on Waikato Dark Lager, And Tui India Pale Ale, this along with Tim Tams, and some good Laughs. We can't wait to put some pictures on our blog of Allison up to her elbows in chicken s*#t and our new friends. We miss everyone at home but are enjoying every strange, but interesting day we have here.

So we've landed in Raglan, surprise eh? We've been here since Wed. night and the surf has been great until today! The place we are staying, the solscape, does something called WOOF'ing (working on organic farms). We have arranged 2 weeks of working 4 hours a day each and that takes care of our food and our room.
That gives us a few weeks to feel out if there will be work for Andrew here. The solscape is pretty rad, the rooms are old train cars and there is a pretty good crew of people staying there right now.
Today we managed to get the site car stuck in a ditch/pond and true to the raglan way of life we just left it there to go check the surf and will deal with it later.
Everything , including the computers, in Raglan are a little behind the times so no pictures for you guys today. We promise a shot of Andy in his first barrel next time we post. Probley won't have much news for the next couple weeks but we'll keep you posted anyway, love you all.

Then there were three

We've spent the last two days in Tauranga, and mt Maunganui. Surf has been pretty good, and on a plus we got to visit Michelle Takeama at A YWAM base. Now we have a matress for our car, the 92 Subaru Legacy Wagon, its in great condition, we found that vans were so dam expensive and quite unsafe. After taking a few bad sleeps in the car sans matress we spent a few hours in the hot salt-water pools, SWEEEEEET.

We're gonna head up the Cormmandel today to Whangamata and hot water beach, the pics we have are from the Mount.

P.S. we showered, and no longer smell like dirty hippie backpackers, just slightly dirty hippie backpackers

Auckland

Almost three in the afternoon on friday, although Im sure our bodies are thinking its more like bedtime on thursday.
We showed up at our hostel at 2 a.m. lastnight, a note on the door telling us our key was in the mailbox. It wasn't, a tall blonde (surprise) German, lets call him Hans, let us in wearing his boxers and sporting a lofty stink eye. WE settled into our top bunk with the other four inhabitants snoring, said all of five words and passed out.
We woke up late and are now searching for our new home (van), we can't wait to get out of the city, Green fields and blue water are calling. Meat pies make the best breakfasts, but Allison doesn't think so. We love you all, some picutres and what not to come later.