Today was our last day of work and Kevin has gone fishing this afternoon with Raymond (the farmer). I stayed behind with Ethan to have a quiet time to type this and do some reading. It took a while to get Ethan to go down for his nap. He finally started to fall asleep in my arms and DONG a bird flies into the window that I was sitting by. The bird struggled and my heart sank. Great, I finally have a sleeping baby, but now there is a near-dead bird out the window to look at. I decided not to look. After 25 minutes I just noticed the bird flutter on it's way. He's quite lucky that Calvin (the kitten) didn't notice. Calvin has a habit of taking birds out of the sky, this would have been a very easy target… But I think the little guy is going to make it : )
One of the days on the farm we worked 8 hours and took the next off to do a hike. Since we are in Mt. Aspiring National Park, we did not have to go too far. We got all organized and ready to hit the trail and 20 meters into our hike there was a river we had to cross. It was raining a little and we were a little discouraged to see the continuation of the trail on the other side. I wasn't feeling that desperate to venture on and thankfully there was another hike a short drive away. With a clearer sky and dry feet we hiked up Mt. Shrimpton. Ignore the name, it was a beefy mountain! Ethan napped in the back carrier and when he was awake, he enjoyed reaching out to grab branches. After a couple of hours we reached the bushline (treelike) and were able to see a lot more of the valley. Some of the mountains have snow on them - while on an adjacent mountain there was a very narrow gully, resulting in a long, narrow, continuous water fall.
We've enjoyed the one store here in town - multiple ice cream's: hokey pokey, coffee walnut, banana chip, kiwi fruit, rum & raisin; also had a little fruit & nut loaf, and a honey chocolate nut square. All goodness...
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