Landscape No More

Today was my last day of landscaping. It was actually anti-climactic. We were told that we had to come in this morning early so we could lay down 35 pallets of sod (each pallet has 70 rolls of sod = 700 sq feet). "Unfortunately" it snowed and rained last night so the ground was too wet. So technically yesterday was our last day of full work.

James and me went to the shop this morning picked up our 2nd last cheque and then went back home and slept. I didn't wake up until 12pm! It felt good.

So now I need to find a new job. It's difficult having no vehicle now, so I'll need to find something close. I'm picked up an application form from Sport Mart, which is just at the Bonnie Doon mall.
I'm not looking for anything serious right now, just something flexible until spring arrives.

Tomorrow is halloween and I'll be dressing up as a moose. I told the parents and Jeff that I had found a stuffed moose at Value Village and tore it apart to make it into my costume. I'll post a picture once I have it all on.

Hope your travels, adventures and daily lives are going well. I am quite jealous of you all: Pete and Sarah - the pictures look beautiful, Rachel in Ontario going to school - enjoy it! It goes by quickly! Jeff at home - sometimes you miss home more than you think, plus you're in beautiful British Columbia.

I hope you're all doing well.

Love Daniel

listening to: U2! Steve just went to their show in Vancouver and apparently they're coming to Edmonton next June (I don't know where I'll be but it'd be awesome to go!).

Australia Bound & Hallowe'en

Well, this is try number 3. I hope I'm successful. The previous blogs already outdate the first part of this blog. Pete and Sarah off to 'down under'. Peter has had it with pics shust prior to going through security. Any bites on finding a good van to drive around in? Dad looked up where you were on the island. I'm thinking that it sounds pretty nice, warm, relaxing.......Hallowe'en is this Sat. It is suppose to rain. But, that usually never stops the trick or treaters. The pumpkins are not rotting, so they will hold out for Sat. Jeff, Dad and i still need to carve the other three pumpkins sitting on the step. my biggest question....do they dress up and trick or treat in Australia? I have my trusty Wendy's Troubleshooting guide right beside me. Thanks Sarah. Love you........how hot is it there right now?

Em and Aaron's wedding plus mom and dads visit

Maj, myself and Garnet. A.k.a mom and dad :) !


- Myself, my RA and a few girls from my dorm







- Heather and I

- Em and Aaron dancing

- Uncle Pete and Em.
Father daughter dance

Here are a few pictures from this past weekend, I think mom and dad have some pictures as well and pictures of little Eli.
The weekend was great, wedding was really nice and was good to see relatives that don't often see, and it was GREAT seeing mom and dad and showing them around my dorm and introducing them to my dormies! They all think you're super awesome parents and I agreed with them. Thanks for coming up it was great seeing you again. And it won't be too long till I will see you guys again. Will be good to see Dan and Jeff as well! Will hope to see you sometime Pete and Sarah, maybe when i'm in Ontario or back at BC! Hope things are going well in Austraila, and in BC and Alberta.. wow we are all over the place. Like mom said she has each kid in a different country or continent haha crazy!
-Rachel-

Straddie, etc.

We have yet to get a cell phone, which will happen in the next day or two! No worries! ;) This weekend we are headed to Noosa Heads. There is a van for sale there that we want to check out. The commute will be substantial but we wanted to go to Noosa Heads anyhow. Plus we Rebecca and Andy are expecting company this weekend. So we have to leave anyhow. I've booked us a couple of beds at the hostel that has free surf boards to borrow. That's what Peter is excited about. I am hoping this is the van for us. There is one more that will be available for us to look at in Brisbane on the 4th of November. How to decide?! One is $4500 which he say's in negotiable and the other is $6000. The cheaper van is in Noosa. It also is old, 1979 Toyota Hiace with 260000km. But from the pictures it looks like it is in good condition. The other is 1984 Mazda E something with 195000 km. So you can see our difficulties in trying to decide what to do. Both are pop up's.
Besides trying to buy a van we have decided to head south instead of north. The reason being that Peter is concerned that the North will be too hot! From what other people have been telling us, the best time to hit Carnes, etc is after March. We have decided to leave Australia at the end of July out of Brisbane. Hopefully we can sell the van easily at that time. I think so.
We enjoyed staying on Straddie. The weather was great, with the day's sunny and the evenings cool. We met some people at the place we were staying which was cool. We had beers with the one bunch and talked about all things Canadian and Australian. As we were leaving we met some older people. They gave us some good suggestions. The guy even offered Peter a job helping him build his house. (Up near Cairns.) Since we didn't have wheels, we hitched our way across the island. This proved to be very easy and quite enjoyable. It was interesting hearing some peoples stories. I must say I could be tempted into hitching more often. (Only with Peter of course.)
We had our first encounter with fish this past weekend. Eating and seeing. I ate fresh fish and chip and Peter had giant calamari. Both were good. We also saw a very large sea turtle and the fins of a pod of dolphins. Apparently there was a great white shark off the coast from where we were swimming. It even made the news. I found out after. There were also some humpback whales, but we didn't see them.
Tomorrow we head too a Koala Sanctuary. Apparently we can hold and feed them. I'm thrilled.
That's all for now. Love you all and am looking forward to talking with you.

P.S. We are looking forward to hearing about the wedding! Rachel I bet it was so good to see your parents! We thought of you all as we were laying on the beach!

P.S.S. We saw pictures of baby Eli Peter. Beautiful name! When was he born? Peter thinks he saw the Brouwer nose on him. Did they make it to the wedding?

A little glimpse at Redeemer life

Chore board

kitchen

My closet, I made sure you could
see the canucks jersey.

My bed, I have yet to do some more
decorating.

Our first night of devotions together we did
fingerpainting. ( mine is on the bottom left)

My group when I went to cross culture.

Amila(girl in my dorm) and myself at this dessert place
to celebrate 2 girls in our dorm that had their birthday
in September.

I'm sorry that i'm alittle slow on posting haven't quite gotten use to it yet but it's a good way to see what you guys are up to in BC and Edmonton,and for you guys to know what's going on here with me at Redeemer. So I apoligize cause I know a couple of you keep on telling me to post things so I was determined to put atleast some pictures up!

Here are some pictures of my dorm and my room so hopefully you can picture me living there. I don't have alot of pictures of the girls in my dorm, haven't gotten around to that yet but we plan on doing a family portrait of us and also individual photos and planning on doing a photo shoot so i'll see later on if I can put those up too. And hoping to take some sweet fall pictures, there are alot of beautiful colours over here, I love it!

Did somebody call an inspector?

Which hat does the family favour? a) blue

b)hard hat white

Papa G trying out his duds for Olympics.

Fall Clean Up

Moving plants.

Peter and Mom cleaning up the flower beds.

Peter transplanting.

Dad doing what he does best, sifting soil.

Sarah cooking lunch. Getting a little smoked out.