A fun filled weekend...

Hi there everyone… we love your comments and love that you are all keeping up with us over here in NZ. This weekend was a fun filled weekend. We started out of Friday afternoon we took the car we wanted to buy over to a mechanic that our homestay guy trusts to check out the car. He took it for a test drive and said it rides nice and is taken care of. But then they put it up in the air and basically tell us that they wouldn’t buy the car. We were pretty bummed out. It was a better looking car than we had looked at and we thought it rain better than all the rest, but that shows how much we know about cars. He said the cam belt needed replacement and that would cost 300-$400 bucks and once we open it up we might find more problems. So, we are back at square one and looking again.
On Saturday Tim had a game. Tim played really well. After the match they had a get together and had a hangi for dinner. A hangi is a type of Moari (the indigenous people of New Zealand) traditional cooking. All the meat,potatoes and kumura (NZ Sweet Potato) are put under the ground and cooked. The flavour is earthy and smoked. Tim enjoyed it, I thought the meat was okay, but the smoky flavour is not my favourite. It is a must try when coming to NZ though.
On Sunday, we went for a walk in the redwoods and went to the Buried Village. It was rather uneventful EXCEPT for a really cool waterfall (pics to come). The village was not so great. Therafter, Tim had his last day of work (that might have been skipped but that will come...). A Sunday night can be pretty slow in an Irish bar... So Heather, Steve, and Julian came down to celebrate and get some last free drinks. After a quiet beer, a triple of single malt whiskey, another triple single malt whiskey, and another triple single malt whiskey and a shot, they were pretty wasted. Heather had a nice raspeberry soda but enjoyed the night. Around 12, Tim had to drive him! It was rather fun though. Julian made a sailor hat and was singing Welsh songs around the bar while Steve feel his chair a few times. Good times!