A night with some Canadian Girls

Tonight we had the good fortune of having two fine young Canadians from Kamloops, BC over for dinner. They are both here in Gore through the YouLead program doing a "gap year". They have finished high school and taking a year off before higher education. They are here on the Working Holiday scheme. Amanda Aldrich lives in the hostel at Gore High School and works in the school as a teacher's assistant. Samantha was very pleased to find out that there was another Canadian in the school with her! Amanda's friend is Darcy Stanley who is living and working in the hostel at St. Peter's Catholic School. Because of the very rural and spread out nature of the region we are living in, some students live up to an hour away from the closest high school and board in the hostel during the week.

We had a great time tonight. We enjoyed a some wonderful barbecued hamburgers, some potato wedges(Sammy's specialty) and some pasta salad. It was delicious. One of the things that we miss is the taste of Canadian meat. The hamburgers are the closest to home that meat has tasted. Then Samantha put some baked apples in the oven and we went over to the Flying Fox for some fun and adventure. Check out the pictures.



It was great fun. Watch for a video in the next day or two of me on the Flying Fox. I held the video camera on the way down. The ending is not so pretty.There is something nice about spending an evening with fellow Canadians. We are definitely going to have them out a few more times before they head home in August.

We are off in search of yellow-eyed penguins this weekend. More pictures should be up by Sunday.