Today, we explored Blenheim to Renwick and around different wineries via bicycles. Fun? Yeah. Right weather? Definitely not. We biked against the huge windgusts for 10k to get here and the bike seats are horrendous. I'm scared to bike back because I'm afraid to cause permanent damage to my crotch area. I'm going to try to rig a seat cushion out of my wind breaker. Wish me luck. At least we're drunk biking and not driving.
Yesterday was an exciting day for me! I. Held. A. Lamb!!!! Yes, horrible pic of me BUT I. Held. A. (3 day old) Lamb!!!! We watched a whole sheep shearing show, fed a ram, and Evan fed a 5 week old lamb named Ellis from a bottle! Fantastic!
We also took a long walk along the Kaikoura peninsula. It was sunny and fabulous. There is a very strong and very cold wind from the south right now but even with that it was a breathtaking walk. I even saw a bunch of cows on the way back and snapped some picks. Apparently cows have very itchy necks and use any fence, wire, or pole to work that out.
We tried to have a picnic yesterday. It was way too windy so we ate in the van but I took a pic of our intended picnic table. It would have been so nice! While we ate in the car we listened to a bit of NZ NPR. I learned that the snow down south is definitely unusual and that it is, as I had suspected, killing many of the cattle, sheep, and lambs. The farmers have requested that this event be called a "medium scale adverse event" which, to an American, sounds quite wishy-washy and British, eh? In the USA we'd have declared a state of emergency already.
We also learned today along our bike-drink ride that this weather is quite cold and windy for this time of year. That makes me, once again, feel better about how surprised I am by how cooooold it is here.
Regardless, we've decided to forget about Fiji and save our money for Australia. Sad but true. Just 2.5 more weeks of the NZ horrible cold. October 12th can't come soon enough!
omg that lamb is so cute!!
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