Hey Everyone! So we are finally settled in our new place. I start school tomorrow and I am really excited. Matt has been fishing so much that he actually said he thinks he needs a day off. We went camping up to a place north of us called Beaverlac. It was recommended to us by our American friends and then multiple other people said it was wonderful. So we got up there after a very arduous drive. The drive was so difficult we thought that surely there would be no one else as crazy as us to try to make it through this pass to a camping site in the middle of nowhere. We couldn't have been more wrong. Seems like there were at least 300 people there and I think they all just have really super nice camping gear and then hang out at their campsites admiring their nice things. The attraction of the place is a river that runs by it and it is really clear and pools as it moves down through these rocks. If you hike up the river, you can just go from pool to pool. So the pictures are from along that river. We tried to take one with the camera timer of both of us so Matt is caught swimming out to me while the picture was taken.
The picture of the two of us close up is from today. And it is showing that this country can't keep us down. We decided that we would go orchid hunting today and so we took off out of the city towards Betty's Bay in search of the elusive disa orchid. Well, since it has been about a month since we've had any bad luck, we should have known that some was coming our way. In trying to prevent this, we took the car in the have it serviced which ended up being $300 of little repairs here and there. But hey, we figured an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Anyways, one of the things they did was change the brake pads. Back to today...as I am driving down the highway at 70mph the brakes on the car gave out. So we didn't make it orchid hunting. Luckily after our last car problems we decided we should invest in a good insurance company...so they had a tow truck come pick us up. The picture of us from today is when we were at a rest stop waiting for the tow truck to come. See the big smiles on our faces....it's because this sort of thing can only be funny now. So here we are without a car again....
