so long Waipara Hills Winery!

well friday was the last day at work. we worked about half a day, mostly cleaning up and warming a few sluggish ferms... but after we had a nice little party. had a few beers, pepperoni and stinky cheeses, wine, then we had a great match of soccer... italy verses france... i was on team italy. quiet funny considering all of us are pretty out of shape for running around and about 1/2 of us didn't know soccer too well...beer breaks intermittently and plenty of substitutions but i actually managed to score a goal off a great assist. the game finished when the steaks on the bbq were finished, with a final score france 5, italy 4... but it was a close on at the end. after devouring steaks, sausages....and more drinks we filled up one of the 5 thousand liter tanks with hot water and made ourselves a nice little hot tub...(is that legal?!?!!!) it was so hot, about 40 degrees C, what ever that is.
after the dip we made plans to rendezvous back at 0ur house for a little house party, which turned out to be a great time....really reminded me of a college party, lots of beer, booze, card games, other drinking games, passing the apple around, singing, dancing, pissing off the brazilian, all great things... i guess at one point jonny and i decided we were going to play kings cup, a drinking game with cards which each card is a different rule, so jonny and i sat down and set up the rules of the game... a battle of the minds, 30 minutes later they had to come find us and we only had about half the rules... what a fun guy. him and his fiance invited me up to their wedding in ptown in august, so thats pretty cool. i crashed a little early but i guess the party still went on for a while...at some point jonny made a delicious (ha?!?!!!!) stew of sausages and oranges, ya looked like someone throw up in a pot and left it for me to find in the morning when i cleaned up. saturday we planned a night out on the town. spent the afternoon doing a little shopping in christchurch, randomly met up with romain downtown and him and i went for a little stroll around the botanical gardens passing the time till we were supposed to meet everyone at the dux de lux, a groovy brew pub that makes some decent beer. had a couple pitchers of beer, including a very interesting ginger beer, tasted exactly like pickled ginger like you get at sushi places...but with alcohol!!!! afterwords we headed out to a little irish pub with pool called micky finns....where i think i dropped quiet a bit of money...in the 3 digits. but we had a great time and the band was great, a 90s covered band so lots of singing along and dancing. should have stayed there but headed off to a belgium bar to meet up with mike but ended up missing him...but met probably the hottest bartender ever, a young rosario dawson, jonny was they hard to get me a date, it was funny, have a great picture of her holding a huge beer for me....yumm hoegaarden. and sampled a little traditional belgium bar faire....little fried balls of meat... or should i say hot lava because thats what it felt like...burnt my month pretty bad. headed out late for some fast food...first mcdonalds since i have arrived in NZ. and took bus back to jonnys for some movies and chilling out, way out....woke up curled up on a love seat and looked over and saw laurent, romain and ivan all sleeping on the couch next to me... some kind of italian sandwich with french bread....get it cause laurent and romain r french and ivan is italian....ha ha ha i kill myself.
anyways last night we moved out of our place... headed back to the hostel we were staying at before to move in but what do you know.....all full for the night, so we spent another night over at jonnys....much quieter night. they all had to work in the morning. lucky me got to spend the day doing laundry and moving into the backpacker, reuniting with the staff and just relaxing... so happy just to relax and do nothing, good thing i got a week of this planned.
take care all!!! miss ya!!!!