Anything to support the travels! My friend Lou (who I used to work with at Fork) recently started her own painting company. I let her know that if she needed any help to give us a call... and she did! I ended up spending some hours after work (and on my days off) to sand ceilings and scrub decks. Not so much fun, but can't complain when you're making money. I also got to see some other areas of Wellington that I probably otherwise would have not.
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| Beautiful drive to Iven's new house |
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First load ready
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Also helping Lou with the painting was a South African named Iven. He has been living in New Zealand for over a decade and has a painting company himself. He also has some crazy stories from living in Johannesburg, like how he got whacked with a machete at an atm and stood, bleeding, with his foot on the guys neck until the police arrived. "I'm telling you bru, I could of snapped his neck right there if I wanted to," he told me. He also mentioned how both his parents had to shoot people because of them robbing their home.
Last week he asked me to help him move house. I took off for the day and Joined Lou and her boyfriend Trevor in moving furniture and boxes into a truck and then into Iven's new house. We unloaded and Iven told us the appropriate room for the boxes. I found, what looked like the leg of a kitchen table with a giant nail through one end. "Where is this going?" I asked him. "Master bedroom," he replied. "I'm telling you, someone comes to rob me they'll get this right in their back."
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| This neighborhood has some great views |
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| Iven's wife and their dogs |
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| Lou showing the dogs their new yard |
Iven, his wife, and his daughter moved to the Upper Hut region of Wellington. It took us eight hours and two truck loads. Iven was excited to show me his new man cave, a shed in the back yard, that he's going to convert to a mini bar. After everything was done, he paid us, fed us beers, and then took us all out for Indian.
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| Iven and Trevor having a beer |
