What a Weekend!!

Wow! We've just worked through the busiest weekend the lodge has seen since we've been here. In fact, quite possibly the busiest weekend the lodge has seen since last high season. There are 10 units at the lodge and they were all rented out each night for a total of three nights. Let's just say that Jesse and I have had to work our fannies off and our hosts liz and geoff have enjoyed our strong midwest work ethic. We've just finished for the day and that means that we are done now until next Saturday. That's right! We have 4 days off now to run and explore the north coast of the north island.
We've decided to leave in the morning and head out to liz and geoff's bach (holiday home) on the northwest coast. I am not sure what kind of place we will find when we get there, as they haven't been there themselves in over a year. On the map it looks really close, but in fact the roads are very curvy and steep and so it will take probably 4 hours to get there from where we are. Of course, I could be entirely wrong, but it took 1.5 hours for us to get from Warkworth to Whangarei (pronounced Fan-ga-ray as the WH here produce an F sound).
Our Toyota Sceptor, which we've nicknamed Yota, has been getting us from point A to point B very nicely. We are crossing our fingers that she holds up the entire year, but at this point don't see any reason why she wouldn't.
The days are getting warmer here with each new dawn and I feel like jesse is going to be dragging me into the ocean for some swimming very soon. He's already gone into the pool at the lodge that isn't heated. Not to be outdone by a boy I of course had to also jump in. It wasn't so much the cold that made me flail around and exit as quickly as I could while screaming. I blame it on the salt water.
Gotta go and get our room organized so that we can leave at a decent time in the morning.-Beverly