And again...

My computer is still on the wrong time zone.

Sunday we went to the sand dunes and did some sand boarding. Basically, it's sledding and snowboarding on sand instead of snow, which means it's a lot less painful and a lot warmer. It wasn't terribly warm because of the wind, but we did apply sunscreen three times I think. And there was the view of the super blue ocean that was sort of incredible.

Yesterday we were going to go to the beach but the sheep decided they did not like that plan. Shortly after lunch we started rounding them up. What normally takes ten minutes took two hours. There was one ram that was so fat that after running away from us for a while, he just sat down, heaving. Really fat sheep are hard to move because, shockingly, they are heavy. So we hooked up a makeshift sled to the back of the car and drug the not-so-brilliant thing out from under the trees. Ines (the German girl) had to sit on its back the whole time, which was hilarious. There was definitely some screaming involved.

Today we sheared some sheep. By we I mean a friend of the host family. Ines and I watched and picked up the wool. We got to try shearing too (just a tiny little patch), which is kind of scary because it's really easy to accidentally cut the sheep. Oh, and we got to put some bands on the sheep tails. I used to wonder if it was that important to knock off the tails, and then I saw the nastiness that results when you don't. Ew.

After two days of really warm, beautiful weather, today was kind of sad, but since we were inside the shearing shed all day, I suppose it doesn't really matter.