Haven't even left yet.

Well we've decided to stay in a hotel Tuesday night now as the morning traffic in Sydney has gotten so bad over the last few months we felt we'd need to leave by 2.30am to get there on time and once we fly into Auckland we then have a 5 hour trip ahead of us. I got on to Wotif.com, what an awesome site. Got a airport hotel for $87.00 for 3 of us for the night. Steve will work up until 12, lunchtime then we'll do the last minute packing and leave Tuesday night.
Yesterday Steve had to work all day and his last pick up was at Wilmotts down in Cooma. They make furniture out of recycled timber. Absolutley beautiful. They've been customers of his for many years. Here's their website if you'd like a look.

http://www.thewillmottcollection.com.au/tables/index.asp

The father and son make the tables and the work is suburb. Anyway Steve picked me up and I went for a ride with him. Nice being in the truck again. We turned off just before Cooma and then after a while turned onto a gravel road. We continued up this for about 20km leaving a huge dust cloud behind us. They used to have their business in Fyshwick but wanted to move to the country. I do too but I don't think we'll be going that far into the boonies!!
Their house is an old farmhouse that they are slowly doing up. Every bedroom has a fireplace. After we loaded the truck, i.e. Steve and Daniel did the physical work but I was there for them in spirit. These tables are huge and solid. The legs are turned and massive center pieces so you can imagine really heavy. The workshop is a converted shearing shed. The smell of the sheep remains heavy in there. It was so quiet out there and so peaceful. Daniel's parents came over just as they finished and invited us to join them for dinner. It was a really pleasant evening with Steve and I doing most of the talking as usual.
We got home around midnight, which is way past my bedtime. Very enjoyable night though.