In Ngaruawahia Now

Well, we are currently in Ngaruawahia. I learned an acronym trick that helps me to remember how to spell it, otherwise I would have to look each time. It is: Nine Guys Are Resting Under A Wharf And Here I Am. Not the most cleaver but it works. It is pronounced Near-Ah-Wa-He-A. We arrived here on Friday afternoon. They are a couple in their fifties who have adopted 3 young kids after raising 4 of their biological children. They are aged 3, 4 and 5. I could do the work that they are asking us to do all day, not that they ask us to work more than a few hours a day. The thing that really tires me out is: "read me a story, jump on the trampoline with me, build me a fire engine house out of lego's, etc...." They are really well mannered kids but just so high strung. Of course they are as they are 3, 4 and 5!
I planted some strawberries, did some vacuuming and hemmed a curtain yesterday. Jesse and Jeff dug out a garden so that it can be planted soon. Don and Davina are a really nice couple who are laid back and very down to earth. Like me she has a ton of projects that she has started and will finish some other time. They have 3 cats: Pepper, Safron and Cinnamon and two dogs:Reisha and Zola. Jesse is really taken with Zola. She is a four year old Italian sheep protector of the breed Maremma. She doesn't smell like a dog and if she gets dirty (she is white) her hair falls off. She has a very nice temperment=:) They also have chickens (plenty of eggs to eat!) and roosters that cocka-doodle-do at all hours of the night. They had them at our last place, Solscape, but it is better here as we are in a cement basement as opposed to a thin tent.
We will be here in Ngaruawahia until Friday morning. At that point we are heading south to a lodge (Erau?) where we will be setting up for a concert/rave. I think that we will be staying there for at least a week and a half or two weeks. Jesse and I are going to start trying to find jobs soon after that. Wish us luck!!