Work!

We are now gainfully employed! Who knew things would work out this quickly? First a flat room and now a job! We were just relaxing in our room today after doing some much needed laundry when we both got a text at the same time and lo' and behold it was Pick NZ with some work! So we went this evening to check it out. We will be doing apple thinning on an orchard about a 10 min drive away. The guy who runs it is very nice, he has two young daughters, and he says that he expects there will be work until Christmas which is great because that is how long we were planning to stay here. So that is a huge relief. We are also getting payed at a contract rate, basically per tree, so the more and faster we work, the more we earn. Though he says once we get used to the work and get a rhythm going the average is about $15/hr. This is good because we can set our own hours and work for however long we want. Or we can take a day off if we want!

So we're feeling very luck right now and it's quite a relief to know we have some income coming in! If we play our cards right hopefully we will make enough to save up and replenish our funds a bit.

When we got home the girl who rents us the room said she had free tickets for us! She works at the Hawke's Bay Opera house and this Saturday night is a performance of a guy who plays the Ukulele and will be performing in the courtyard of the Opera House. So now we have a nice event to go to this weekend. Tomorrow night we are meeting Mark and Pam for a beer at the pub in Havelock North before going to the midnight premiere of the new Harry Potter! The cinema we are going to is a boutique cinema so there are only three theaters and they don't serve popcorn, but wine and cheese!

It's turning out to be quite a good week! The sunset was correct.