Monthly Archives: February 2012

Hello, hello! So Adam has been playing around with woodworking lately, building mini surfboards and ipod cases and things.. I knew it was going to happen someday soon, but today was the day he injured himself with the tools… He cut a pretty deep hole into into his palm.. We rushed to the hospital, but only got steri-strip put on it, because it’s in an awkward spot to get stitches… This means he can’t get his hand wet for the next 5 days. Which of course means I’m in charge of the cooking! Even though no one thinks I can cook because mister Chef Adam does all the cooking, well you’re mistaken. I can cook, and started my cooking at a very young age actually…baking cookies when I was 6 for my ‘Brownie’ friends… Anyways.. here is my post of food, that I made all by myself, zucchini chocolate cake! (with zucchini’s from the garden of course)

Today my husband Adam made some super delicious, fattening, bad for you, cinnamon buns.. Oh man they are yummm.. Here is a sneak peek; for the recipe go to his blog

Hola amigos y amigas! Adam and I have stopped our south island road trip and have been house sitting for an awesome family in a place called Staveley, in South Canterbury.  It’s beautiful around these parts, and especially beautiful on the farm we are staying at. However we are about an hour away from any good surf… But… a few days ago before the family left, the kids took us scurfing! The next best thing if you’re not near the ocean!!! Here are a few photos from the session:

The Moeraki Boulders are a group of very large spherical “stones” on Koekohe Beach near Moeraki on New Zealand’s Otago coast. These boulders are actually concretions that have been exposed through shoreline erosion from coastal cliffs that back the beach.They originally formed in ancient sea floor sediments around 60 million years ago. Pretty cool!!…

Baldwin Street in a suburban part of New Zealand’s southern city of Dunedin, is considered the world’s steepest residential street. A short straight street a little under 350 metres, an average slope of slightly more than 1:5. Its lower reaches are only moderately steep, and the surface is asphalt, but the upper reaches of this cul-de-sac are far steeper, and surfaced in concrete (200 m (660 ft) long), for ease of maintenance (bitumen—in either chip seal or asphalt—would flow down the slope on a warm day) and for safety in Dunedin’s frosty winters. At its maximum, the slope of Baldwin Street is about 1:2.86 (19° or 35%). That is, for every 2.86 metres travelled horizontally, the elevation changes by 1 metre.

Hello! We’ve been pretty busy road-tripping around the south island, and ended up camping right near Mount Cook a few days ago.. Mt Cook is the highest in NZ at 3,754 metres. We did a really amazing tramp through the Hooker Valley to get a better view of Mt Cook. It was sooooooo beautiful.

Hello! It’s been ages since I’ve posted anything… we left our favorite Kiwi family in Upper Hutt (it was really sad saying goodbye to Jo, Ian and Emare, as well as all the animals on the farm…) and have been exploring the South Island. The landscape down here is truly amazing and extremely photogenic!  After visiting Nelson and the Abel Tasman we surfed some awesome waves on the West Coast in Greymouth and then made our way to Wanaka, Queenstown and Central Otago. We spent 5 days in a town called Roxburgh earning a bit of fast cash picking cherries on a cherry farm. It was really hard work but so yummy!  We are now in Dunedin. I haven’t edited all my photos yet, but here is a preview of a few places we’ve seen. More to come.