Last week in NZ

Today might very well be the last day that I just get to chill and relax for quite a while.  On Friday, Jon, Bexie, Cat and Mel left for their road trip to Northland.  Due to "logistical complications" this left Nico and me back at the house for a few days on our own.  This is actually working out quite well for us to get all our shit together, learn some Indonesian language and forge any necessary return documents for our future travels.

There's all of us together on the last night that the girls were here.  Also it seemed it was time for a new hairdo, and Mel braided my hair.  I kinda like it.

I keep talking about making some cabins, but I dont think i've put in any pictures yet.  Here on the right is the first cabin with all the walls up and rafters on.  Below is another picture from when I was putting on the roof.  Here, the construction is so simple.  This is a testament to that, since I've never built anything like it, yet with a bit of Jon's help I wrote up the plans and did all the framing on my own.  For a foundation all we've got are 3 4"x4" bearers that I levelled with bricks.  Then the floor joysts sit right on those bearers.  The walls as you can see are all 2x4.  The roof that goes on top is just some chicken wire to hold up the roofing paper (acts as a vapor barrier) and then there is roofing iron that gets nailed in on top of that.  Right now the walls are nogged and some plywood has gone on a couple of the walls.  The second cabin has all the walls up and rafters on as well, but no roof yet.  It was crazy to see all that happen in just one day.  With 6 people working on it and the walls already built, it really goes up fast.  In this last week, I think that we'll continue to work on getting these cabins finished up.  I doubt they'll be totally done by the time I go, but it would be nice to have at least one totally closed in.