We're still working at the vineyard 40hrs/week, except for today as it's pouring rain, which is good for the area after a really long drought (but bad for us as we got soaked this morning after 2 hours of work). Life has been hardly mundane inspite of working. We went to Kaikoura for the weekend and almost rented kayaks but balked at the price, then settled on a nice walk around the head of the peninsula. Kaikoura is a nice seaside town well known for expensive whale and dolphin watching and lots of fur seal colonies. Gorgeous day, we were happy with our decision. Then we hit a strange but nice Irish pub for a pint of Guinness (tasty!). All was going as planned until we looked at the engine temperature gauge and oh boy did Tink have a feaver! Turns out our radiator had been slowly leaking, so we poured in some patch junk and filled her back up with water and drove back to Blenheim the next day hoping for the best. We made it back, bummed to have missed another nice day in Kaikoura, when Gretchen and Matt texted us and stopped by for an afternoon of tasting some wine and drinking a beer at the pub. Just the cure for two car-trouble weary vineyard workers. Now our van is in the shop and we're staying at a nice place in town, getting rides to and from work from coworkers.
Hope everyone has an excellent Christmas and a Happy New Year. We miss everyone a lot and think of home quite a bit (yanking wires for 8hrs a day leaves us with much thinking time!). We're going to upload some pics now so take a look in both Julie and Jay albums...
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