Bed bugs!!!!!

OUR HOSTEL HAS BED BUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I thought NZ was a 1st world country. Our hostel isn't really going to do anything about it! Our room doesn't have any yet, but once bed bugs are in, they are "in" the whole hotel!

I guess the Ministry of Public Health does not have any regulations for these kinda things.
Basically, one room of the hotel had bed bugs. The assistant manager freaked out and wanted the place fumed, but it didn't happen. Long story short, the owner of this place thought it was too expensive to fume it, so he wanted to do it ourselves. These buggers can stay alive without feed for 18month and the eggs are near immortal. How are we gonna "get rid of these by ourselves"?

On a more cheerful note, yesterday we made pancakes! or hotcakes here. Basically we bought a ready-mix shaker thing that looked way kool. We invited our friends Leo, Amy, and Joel (the ozzie) to breakfast with us. Tom, the cynical english dude joined in later too. After some sad attempts at pancakes, we decided lounge around for a while and then grab some fish and chips at a near by town.

We drove Gertude (which took a while to start) to Taumarunui, bought some fish n chips and explored the town. Amy only bought 1 nugget and 1 potato hash, crazy! After some pretty good food, we stumbled over to the "Mainly $2" store. It was kinda kool, I can't lie.

Then, we dropped off joel, leo and tom. We then took Amy with us to Tom (the duty manager of the park who is a full Maori)'s hobbyfarm. We got way lost but got there in one piece. Man, that place is beautiful...lots of nature and stuff. Anyhow, we drove past the gate and the first thing we saw was this sheep that was staring at us. The puppies then ran up to the car and wanted lots of attention. They were lissy's favorite. Tom just got some fresh piglets and they were really cute too. They were sleeping when we got there, and woke up startled. One of them had the blanket over its head and was running around. The cows were also super cute, lissy tried to feed them but were scared of her. The kool thing about this farm is that, all the animals are free-range, organic and interact with each other. They get herbal medicine instead of seeing a vet....ever.




We don't see that kind of stuff in the states. Anyhow, g2g.
bye, jalissa