Supercalifragulisticexpealadosous

I love the ocean. I have decided that I cannot live without water around me.

Today I went on a beautiful cliff walk with the lady I'm staying with and her neighbour. The hike took us about 30 minutes and completely took my breath away. Part of the windedness came from running 100 stairs 3 times (600 stairs total), and the other part can from the fact that there are just so many hills in this country. It was absolutely worth it though. The views were amazing, and I haven't had anything resembling a work out in way too long. It's really quite disconcerting. I should get on that.

After our beautiful walk/run/stairs experience, I came back to the house and put together 4 window screens to keep buggies out at night. Unfortunately, these things are incredibly frustrating and annoying and stupid and... and... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. But! I managed to do it. My fingers still hurt from pushing pieces together. I guess when the Asian manufacturers designed and made these DIY (do it yourself) window screens they didn't account for the fact that the screen, which goes inbetween the plastic cover and the magnetic strip, takes up space and made the plastic cover and magnetic strip fit perfectly together. Thus, I spent 4 insane hours jamming pieces together that were not designed to be jammed. Can I get an ouch ouch? Ouch! Ouch!

As a reward for completing the window covers, and to finish my hours for the day, I went with the daughter on a nature hike. She is such a cutie. She taught me about rocks and plants. She informed me on how the rivers change and the tides flow. She showed me all her secret spots. And more importantly, informed me that Supercalifragulisticexpealadosous is harder to spell than Mississippi. Good to know!

The rest of my day was spent vegging out, munching on these granola bar square type things, watching project runaway and chilling with the daughter whilst watching 101 Dalmations. It was a good day.

I'm about to finalize the plans for my next job (which I'm being warned sounds a bit like a rip off. But might as well give it a go. It could be fun). I should be heading back to Auckland area between Sunday and Wednesday. I'll keep all you cool cats posted cause I know you are all waiting breathlessly to find out what happens next. Haha.

Much love and work on your spelling.
Julia