Craig & Sam Down Under

Hello all! Sorry about the lack of Blogs we have both been working so hard and earning our spendies. We are still at the Mango Plantation and its lots of fun, HONEST! There is plenty of work to be done and the people we work with are still really friendly. I (Craig) have been driving the tractor all week, its a hard life driving an air conditioned tractor with a CD player and radio in it when all the other working folk are slugging it out in the 37 degree heat. HaHa!
Any way since our last blog not much has been happening just lots of working and very little playing. Two weeks ago all the investors and owners of the farm we are on put on a dinner for all the workers and planters, basically anybody who had anything to do with the setting up of the farm was invited. They had a half hog roast and loads of really nice food set on and then we went to the pub and the farm owner showed up , started a tab behind the bar and we had free drinks as well. Smashing! He was a Yank but since he paid for the ale we can let him off for that.
The only travelling we have done lately was last weekend. We went to a place not too far away called Atherton and then onto a place called Yungaburra. Atherton was nice, we went for a walk around the shops and town, it was much busier than Dimbulah but still not much going on. It was nice to get out of town and just see somewhere different. Yungaburra was like stepping back in time. A very small but very very very very old town. All the buildings were made of wood and the whole town looked like it was from some western film. But it was all spruced up for the tourists so it was nice. There was an aboriginal woman who came walking out of the pub balancing a crate of beer on her head. There were three people sitting outside the pub and us walking past and we all couldnt help but stare. From Yungaburra we went to Tinaroo dam which was beautiful and there was a wake boarding competition happening as well which was cool to watch. Unfortunately the cameras battery was flat so we have got to go back to get some pics.
This week at work both of us have had a change of scenery at work and we went and planted some trees, so now our T Shirts the owners give us that say “Ive Planted one in Dimbulah 2005!”, actually make some sense. They also give us a photo they had taken from a plane so you can see just how big this place is. There have been two new people who have started at work called Sven and Marie and they are our age, THANK GOD! The average age of people round here is well above forty and although they are friendly they dont have much more to talk about but farming. The other night all the people from the farm who live on the campsite including Sven and Marie came and sat out around our van and we had a really good night sat out drinking and having a laugh. Terry one of the fellow sprayers (thats what we do most of the time, spray the trees or weeds) wandered off around the caravan park in a drunken state , only to be discoverd by me about an hour later asleep under a tree
Probably the most important news is that CRAIG HAS GOT A GUITAR!!!! YEY!!!. When we went to Atherton we found a music shop that was really cheap so i spent my christmas money. We went to Cairns this weekend where Sam spent her christmas money on a pair of jeans and a purse. The parcels from sams family have arrived with all our christmassy stuff in. The tinsel has gone on the shelter to decorate our caravan park. The little decorations are plastered over the fridge along with pics of the pups in the snow. The cards have been opened which got us all teary and the presents are being saved for christmas day. We have already been tempted to open them and lie and say we did open them on christmas days but so far we have remained strong. Me and Sven have decided we are going hunting for a wild bush turkey for christmas dinner, this was a drunken idea i might add and neither of us have mentioned it since sobering up. Looks like christmas dinner might be just a BBQ after all.

Thanks for all the cards and prezzies.
Thanks for the comments as always. Especially to Nick. Well done i had my money on it taking you at least six months.
Missing everyone loads.
Merry Christmas.
Lots of love and kisses

Craig and Sam.