A Ship Out of Its Harbor: "Heading south to see the sun go down on camp fire light, to join the singing at night... Heading South, heading South." -Roy Orbison

We’ve arrived in Queenstown! After a 4 ½ hour bus ride to Auckland, staying the night, and catching 1 hour flight the next afternoon, we made it back to the South Island. We spent the first few nights in a hostel while we searched for jobs and apartments with our new Canadian buddies, Jesse and Jami. I had really good luck meeting a girl at a 7-11-ish store who said she just left a job cleaning at a hotel for really nice bosses, but wanted more hours and was sad to leave. I dropped my resume off that afternoon, and they called me back later with a job 4 to 5 days a week! I start tomorrow and hope it works out. I may want to work odd jobs here and there to make some extra spending money, but I’m really glad to have the work. We also lucked out and found a really great apartment on the ground floor of an incredibly nice kiwi family’s house. They are letting us rent on a week by week basis for a great rate, and also give us rides into town all the time, invited us up for a BBQ and to hang in the hot tub, and overall are just really cool people with 2 adorable sons. Oh and our view may be one of the best in Queenstown. And they have a chocolate lab. And two cats. And they didn’t make fun of me when I brought soy sausages to the BBQ. Keepers!