Almost Over

It is Thursday evening here on Waiheke Island. I just finished the last bit of painting for the evening and washed out the brush and roller. There is still the upper set of bedroom windows to paint, and a fascia board over the garage, but that will only take a couple hours.

The sun just set behind the hill, and the distant mainland is bathed in a orangish-blue twilight, as lights start to twinkle on. Ashley is in the kitchen cooking dinner-another recipe from Karina's Kitchen-a coconut & chickpea soup that promises to be yummy!

The good news is...We got lice! Unbelievably, somehow we got infested from the two kids, while their parents didn't. Gross. So Ashley and I have been combing each other's hair each night. Yuck.

The family gets back tomorrow afternoon, and we are planning on hanging out with them for a little while after they get back, and then moving into a room that was offered by a woman named Roberta. She has been an interested seeker at Baha'i activities-which is how we met her-and she hosts WWOOFers, but we don't want to be committed to working at her home, so she has offered us a room for $100 a week. That will give us the next two weeks to continue working in the vineyards, and then we will head to the mainland for the Radiant Youth Camp that we will be attending from the 13th to the 21st.

Speaking of vineyard picking, it is pretty easy work. And there is heaps of interesting people to talk with. I spoke with a guy from Vermont for a little while-he took off to travel for a while-when he goes back he will be a freshman in college. He gave us "props on not working for the man like everyone else"...I gave him props for getting out into the world and opening his mind. Crazy kids.