May 28, 2007, Kaitaia, New Zealand

Barb doing dovotions.

Esther painting.

Muffy with Habicat and Joan.

Kori, Jacinda, and Michelle at work.

Jacinda and Kori.

Michelle with Kauri.

Date:  Monday, May 28, 2007

Kaitaia, New Zealand

 

Well, time is growing short for our stay in New Zealand. 

 

Today was a fine day with temps around 70F and mostly blue skies.  I worked with the soffit crew (pronounced here so-feet) all day and we’re gradually making it around the house.  Another crew is working on the siding (cladding) and they’re making good progress.  We are probably at least a half day behind schedule but circumstances probably won’t let us make up the work.  Today the linoleum crew began installing the linoleum floor coverings and Dave Reyburn brought the kitchen cabinets from Whangerai.  Tonight Malcolm and Kori are putting the polyurethane on the floors and hopefully they will be dry tomorrow.  Today everyone that worked in the house removed their shoes and worked in stocking feet to keep from dragging dirt all over the floors.

 

Tonight we had dinner at the Beachcomber Restaurant as guests of John and Carell and it was Carell’s birthday.  We had very nice meals and definitely rate the Beachcomber as our favorite here in Kaitaia.

 

Before dinner we stopped at McDonald’s where we had heard that they have wifi.  The person at the counter had no idea of what they had so we gave up on them.  As we were standing in McDonald’s a lady asked if we were with the Habitat group and if we were trying to find a wifi connection. She said that where she works there was one and if we wanted to stop by tomorrow she would help us connect.  Once again perfect strangers here in Kaitaia as everyplace in New Zealand offered assistance to us.  On the way to the restaurant we drove by the place that she said she worked but we could not find or connect to the wifi.  For the heck of it John kept his laptop on and we continued through town and we found an unlocked wifi connection so we parked and both got on the internet and were able to get and send mail.  Tomorrow there may be a lot of American visitors to those parking spaces.

 

All to report for today, another fine one.