Chris and Mike

I know this is a random assortment of photos but I'll explain. About a month ago we were in Queenstown as we came down to show my friend Mim around and offer was sort of placed in our laps that, in the end, was a good one to go with. Our friend has this restuarant and he needed a new manager. Our friend, Ben, offered us a nice big room in his house (with a beautiful Lake view) and an opportunity to save up the money to go on a trip to Greece with them in June. So after some weighty consideration we decided to come down but that put us into hyper drive to finish some of the projects at River Rd. so it would be ready for tenants. Since we've been there, amazing changes have gone (walls removed, french doors in, carpeting, pellet fire in, painted lounge, dry walled, new lights) on we spent the couple weeks we had before needing to be in QT, painting the entire exterior of the house and putting in a new kitchen. Liz, Pete, Mike, and I (with the help of Tom and Mark with the kitchen) did it. The above pictures sort of show the old and new kitchen and the lounge filled with stuff. It's hard to see, but Mike and I also painted the lounge and it was all looking quite smart and cool. As we did all this work, I had major second thoughts about leaving because the house was going to be so nice and we had only lived in it, while it was all over the place. Maybe we'll move back in when we go back. Who knows but I really enjoyed seeing all the changes and being able to help out. Mike helped out so much and instigated so much of it as well.