Murchison, our home!

Murchison is one of those places you want to get out of because its so small with not much to do, but then it just grows on you. When we leave here I get the feeling we'll miss it a bit; enough to want to come back. Our home away from home! Along those lines... I've been missing home a bit lately. I'm having heaps of fun here but at work when it gets slow I think about going out with friends to my favorite restaurants back home again: Evergreen, Hard Times, or ANY Indian Restaurant. Missin movie nights and midnight retros... and excited to join in on the Wed. bowling nights. It will be really nice when our parents visit us in 2 weeks, but maybe that will make me miss home more!!

Tonight we're having a bit of a going-away party for our friend Michelle. A lot of people are slowly leaving Murchison.. either to continue traveling or going back to a university. We're going to miss Michelle!! Luckily we're going on a camping trip with her and some other Murch girls for a couple nights, so that will be a good time!!

Sorry Tess and I haven't been updating so much. We're actually keeping really busy in Murchison! Also... internet is hard to come by, especially for me. The Library has free internet from 9-4 and I work from 10-4 everyday. The blog is the one getting rejected here if you haven't noticed, haha!

We both like our jobs, but I have not worked so hard in my life... Cafe/restaurant employees work their butts off and we're under-staffed, but I love all the kiwis I work with!!

On our days off we've been watching movies (Totally Awesome), laying on the beach with a beer, swimming in the river, playing pool at the bar, and recently went on a night hike up a hill & stargazed. We can see the milky way here pretty easily every night as there isn't too much light pollution.

Oh, and I finally got a chance to get out of Murchison to Nelson for a day and bought myself a shiny new toy... a 1 Terabyte external hard drive. I filled it with over 20,000 songs last night.

Happy Holidays/New Years!!