Happy New Year, guys!
2012, it’s already been a long time ago, when I started my travelling.
So far so good! But guess what, it’s getting more interesting in 12 weeks. The reason is my sister, she’s gonna join my for my travelling to New Zealand and maybe a bit further. 
I’m still in the mountains and had some nice, but also rainy days up here. I like my work in the retreat and every day is a different day. I’m busy and “doing a great job”, according to my host. The team who I work with, is also nice, even Carolynn from the reception. After meeting her the first time, I didn’t expect that I would like her one day. She’s a special person, though. The last day 2011 and the first day of 2012 were as good as a play. I had off! Cruising through the mountains on a hop off and hop on tour was just the beginning.
While I was going from one tasting to another, I got drunk before midnight. Well, before I started “drinking”, I did
a Skywalk in the rainforest, so I saw at least sth. The cheese factory and the MT Brewery were my next stopp. Beer wasn’t that good, but who cares if you’re in good company. So, we went
together to our first winery, tasted a few wines and went to the next one. The whole afternoon was gone, when I returned to the retreat. Tired from drinking “everything” together, I went to sleep. Penny, a friend, picked me up an hour later. Originally, we wanted to go to a pool party, but I went again straight to bed. Around 9:00 pm I woke up and found out that Penny had also some drinks and weren’t able to go to the neighbour. We stayed at her place and watched the fireworks
from Sydney on TV. 
What a nice NYE! I didn’t regret it.
My days are counted here and I gonna miss it already.
New adventures are coming soon, so I’m not too sad!
Many greetings from the mountain
Kat
We want to see PICS!
Hi Kat
The combination of wine and beer seems to be risky (you´re not the first one to have problems with) – well, the pictures are wonderful. I wonder about the gardens and especially the blue flowers look very nice.
Now you´ve finished this job, and as I see you did your work well, and it was quite interesting! May the new year start with the same components and you´ll smile in your next pictures like in these ones. I take one of your pictures with me on my e- book-reader. so the distance between us is not so immense! Wish you good speed for the next time, and look forward to your next news and pictures! yoma