It’s a girl!

Saturday November 25th, 2006 by Jennifer

Welcome to the newest member of our family, our campervan. We picked her up in Christchurch and will be calling her home for the next month. Of course we had to give her a name, and after my first two suggestions were thrown out (Matilda and Jesus), we agreed on naming her Oprah. At least for now…

She has everything we need:

Bedroom
Top-notch Kitchen
Dining Room/Living Room

Laundry Facilities
See ya on the road!

Fiesta de Gracias

Friday November 24th, 2006 by Jennifer

Obviously Kiwis don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, and they rarely eat Turkey, so no traditional Thanksgiving meal for us. Instead, we “splurged” on Mexican food. In any other country, buying Mexican food is far from splurging. In fact when Jesse was unemployed, he consistently ate burritos at Taqueria Cancun because they were only $3. However, in NZ, Mexican food is considered luxury.

We ate at the Flying Burrito Brothers, mostly because the maitr’d offered me a free margarita, in downtown Christchurch. The first thing we noticed about the menu was that there was a glossary of terms. For instance, in case you didn’t know what nachos were, you could peruse the glossary. Also as a …

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