Just an update.

Hello!

Well there's only been one major occurance since the last blog and that is the end of Summer Camp. I (Aimee) am now footloose and fancy free for the summer. At first I thought this was a disaster but after two restful nights and a bit of sunshine I'm begining to come around to the idea of a bit of time off. Obviously the main downer is the lack of income in the next 5 weeks but finding a job is probably more work than it's worth. As we've found out first hand you have to be pretty lucky to find any job in under 4 weeks let alone a casual temporary one.

So Friday night Emmett and I went out for a beer and said goodbye to little treasures for a while. When I go back in September I'll be running the afternoon session which is mainly 5 and 6 year olds in an after school programme. I'll also be doing at least 2 mornings a week with the little guys as well. It's about 30 hours a week so I'll have to think carefully before taking on anything else, I'll be teaching mainly on my own so I'll probably be pretty stuffed.

Saturday we hung out, went down town, bought bagels at the market as well as a few vegies for the week. We went to the budget supermarket across the street (as opposed to the one downstairs) and made 2 great discoveries. The first is cheese puffs, more fabulous for the name than the product, basically twisties but not as cheesy or twisty - quite yum though. The second was bread in a can. It's uncooked bread rolls in a can that you peel the label off and it pops open in the middle, you pull the precut dough apart and throw in the oven. More than just novelty value as well because the bread is good.

Today we went for a monster walk up the river away from town along the university fields. We saw the tea folly and castle as pictured below and generally enjoyed a bit of sunshine.

Hope all is well at home,
love,

Aimee





We're not sure what a tea folly is but it's really small and thick walled, also it had a shelf inside it.



The boat going across the front is a river cruise/guide. There were lots of people having picnics and bbqs across at the castle so we'll have to walk the other side of the river and see it close up one day.