Its been a week!

yes, time does fly and its been a week since we arrived in Nelson. We've partially settled in and accomplished quite a few things (bank, phone, school, insurance). The next few things are relatively big items (long term house rental, second hand car) and we are hoping to make progress/wrap that up sometime early next week (so we can get back to doing some real work for a change)

The DSL/wireless at our rental cottage (shakespeare house) was quite flaky. Diedre and Wally were very understanding and gave us use of the apartment as a workspace which helped quite a bit. We also swapped their wireless router and installed the Belkin router which seems to have a much higher range than the previous crappy DLINK DSL-604T. We tried upgrading the firmware on their old DLINK from v1.0 -> v3.0) and that failed miserably. The new version range was even lower than the old one, and the tech forums were virtually useless.

The kids seem to be getting up real early out here (6:00 am or so). They have their own room, so kinda cool to hear their conversation. Maya seems to see monsters everywhere enlists PJ's help to eat all of them up :). Nice to see them interact and play with each other nicely most of the times. Maya is warming up to the teachers really quick and things look good on the school front.

Since today was Saturday, we had to head to the farmers market to stock up on fruit, produce, meat, eggs, cheese, salami and bread. We went there fairly early and saw quite a few more vendors than last week (maybe we were jet lagged last week). Kinda nice to meet and get to know our supplier and most of them remembered us from last week. (kinda easy to remember the family with 2 cute girls!). I dont think we'll be missing the SF farmers market for the next few months. The quality of the food here is quite high, and the variety is significanly more than we expected. We also found a local italian bread shop which bakes yummy bread/rolls/pies etc