South Island

Well I better hurry up in catching up on this blog, Im begginning to Forget a lot of the little things that hapened on the way down here now. Its been a while, and for that I apolagise, I belive we have gottan ourselves in a lull of work and illness over the winter.
Obviously again Im the one that was ill. I really am always the one to catch everything, but hay ho, such is life.
After being stuck in bed with a chest infection and cold for over a week, im finally a lot better, and i can start to catch up again in the imortalization of chook and wentzells adventures around the world.
I belive from reading the last entry we had just stepped onto the South Island.
The main conversation on the cards back then was how we where gonna "pimp our ride" , as they say. We where quite enthusiastic to get to Christchurch to start our little project.
We had already got in contact with a family friend of jamies who had been living there for 5 years or so, and she had agreed to let us stay with her and her two daughters.
So after a brief stop of in yet another wonderfull picturesque area we hitailed it straight there.

The stay with Val was so delightfully homey. We finally had a bed in a proper family home which felt so good, and we enjoyed it so much to be so welcomed.
For a week and a half, they made us feel like part of the family. We all had meals together in the evenings, which we took turns in making, and val was always there to give us advice or a helping hand when she could. Even when all of our stuff came out of the van and into her living room when we where painting.
Jamie and i had great fun that week with all the work we put in to do the van up. We got rid of the horrible brown veneer and made her what she is today........... a big heap of metal with a paint job...HA! No i cant talk about her that way, she might get offended. We do love our baby.

We also had time to enjoy part of the night life in Christchurch. There are lots of bars and clubs as its a student town. We where taken out a few times by 1 of Vals daughter's and got smashed both times. She is a bit of a party girl, so it was great to let our hair down.