hitch hiking!!!!!

so much has happened since i last updated. i am going to have to save some of this story for when i get home and you ask me and then i can have crazy things to talk about. here's a random amazing sky picture:


first off, happy turkey day (a bit late... sorry). here's my dinner with sean:


ok, so let's get to story telling.

i'm going to be kinda quick because i'm at an internet cafe in dunedin and i hate paying for this. so here it goes:

i did some really cool work on the farm fixing fences. we also cleared a lot of stuff for concreting... it was hard work.
here's a photo of the still very wet concrete... and that's not all of it, but it gives you an idea.


then i built a campus board with ben and we hung it up and it's really kick ass. anyway, i'll put a new photo of it up when i get back to the farm. i just keep forgetting to bring my camera to the wool shed in the yards (where it is hung).

so why am i not on the farm and what am i doing? well, on wednesday (11.22.06) i hitch hiked down to christchurch and met up with sean. this really cool surfer dude gave me a ride and he showed me the best surfing spots in kaikoura. he had two tapes: one was atmosphere and the other was some 80's mixed tape. it was great.

then on thursday, sean and i hitched it down to dunedin. we got a ride from this nice newly wed couple from melbourne, australia, for about a third of the way. then we got a ride from this guy from israel. he bought us lunch and took us sight seeing along the way. here's a photo of those cool moreki (i probably spelled that wrong) boulders with sean and david (israel guy).

here's some seals we saw at shag point:


the people in dunedin were so excited to have sean and i visit that they threw us a parade:


we've been staying at a really nice backpackers in dunedin and we went and saw albatross today. really cool. and we had to hitch hike both ways because the stupid city transportation doesn't go to the spot they are.... anyway. it was quite windy. here's a photo of an albatross... and yeah, that's the best i could to without paying $40 for a stupid tour... they chained it all off so we couldn't go to the observatory without paying. ick.


we also went to the cadbury factory and bought some chocolate. mmm. look at this picture of a really crazy girl... ;)


today, we're headed all the way south. we probably won't make it to stewart island until tomorrow... but we're taking the bus, so we won't get rained on too much.

love you. talk to you soon. everything is great. i am thankful that i'm here in new zealand on this trip in this town enjoying right now :)

p.s. i watched interview with a vampire last night and it gave me scary dreams.

p.p.s. here's my latest artsy fartsy photo... too bad it wasn't sunny when i took the picture...