Welcome to Paradise // changing plans

Last week we arrived in paradise !
I love it here :D Laureen and her son Justin picked us up at the busstop  in Regina, Saskatchewan and we went to his Austrian Dance lesson which is Stepptanz in german! So pretty soon we found out that he loves Germany and he often replies in the very few german words he can speak.
But yeah when we arrived at the farm it was already dark and we didn`t see much from the property but the house was enough to handle at this Point! its incredible, big and clean!!
They have an indoorpool and a hot tube. We could choose between 4 beds and we have 3 bathrooms for us.......its kinda like a Holiday :)
But what was so magical when we came here was, that we could see the northern lights here!!!!! They were really faded but it was just so....I have no words for it, sry^^. I always wanted to see them and when Justin said "oh look there the northern lights" I was so captured by this I didn`t want to go inside!!!
We were so bombed by all this here. I think we were the happiest Woofers in Canada in this night :)
The next day was Justins bday and we drove to the Grandparents, who also have a farm and they were in the middle of harvesting grain and we could drive the Combine with Grandfather, which was really cool! haha I can`t believe that I write this :D But Agriculture is actually interesting^^

We also met the nice but hyperactive dog Nuzzle, the three black cats and finally Wes, the father at this day. He works at Sasktel, a big communication company, which you can obvious tell by the name :D he is super nice and knows so much about the history and geography of Canada and he is funny as well. The whole Family is super nice and we all get along very well. Usually we hang  around (work :D) with Justin, the son, who is acutally 14 but he knows really much and teaches us things about language and pronunciation and he acts quite like a grown up but if you hang around with him for a while, he`s still a Teenager :D
Usually we doing chores with him in the morning ( they have 500 chickens and some Turkeys) and I`m doing it sometimes at night with him! Usually the chickens go into their houses to sleep when the sun sets but 2 days ago, when we came back from the City one of the doors was closed and all the chickens were sleeping in front of the door :D So we had to catch them in the darkness and put them back into the house! Real fun I tell you xD
The other tasks we have to do aren`t really hard. Today we baked a cake and peeled some beans xD
The first days we harvested carrots, potatoes and corn.
They are organic certificated and delivering twice a week vegetable baskets to their clients and now we put the baskets together! We always have to weigh in the vegatables cause they have to report how much they harvested. thats pretty much what we do here except the Weekends are not horrible but for the vegetarian in me they are! Because its butchering season at the Moment and they`re butchering their chickens! So the last Weekend we had to dig a "grave" for the "leftovers" of the chickens! And that was all I was helping them in this field.
The butchering is kind of a Family event for them, I have the feeling. The Grantparents stayed with us and all helped except us! Well we went out cause Valerie was interested how they do it! They told us that they do it in the most human way ( which is cutting their heads off). So the end of the Story was that we were standting there, Justin ( did I mentioned that he`s 14??) cut the heads off and I couldn`t watch it. I faced the landscape instead but I could still hear them!! But I actually saw the dead chickens hanging there without their heads.
And this weekend is the next round!! I already volunteered for cooking :D

At this Farm we really feel like we're a Part of the Family. They Take us Out to Restaurants and Treat us Kind of like they adopted us :) they' re really accommodating to our needs and show us around their valley. I think we saw more of the surrounding here than on all the other farms together! We went to Saskatoon and we saw quite much of Regina so far! 

Today Justin showed us how to shot with bow and arrow and an air gun , which was fun^^ 

Sunset in Saskatoon

A vegetable basket

Me and Midnight :)

The Combine

The Pool

The Valley belongs to the Property

The Family

 

Feeding Time :D
 

In fact we like it here so much, that we want to stay longer and want to cancel our next farmstay in Alberta! We would actually go to a farm near Red Deer next but now we're thinking about staying one week longer here and searching for another farm in Alberta at the moment. But we also have no problem to stay here for the next month  :) 

Also we have another new stop in our journey! On the 12th of November we'll fly to NEW YORK CITY!!! :))) 

Yehjaaaa.... Friends of Valerie's parents invited us to stay with them. So we'll spent 10 days there and than we'll fly straight to Vancouver, where we also have a friend with whom we'll stay one week before we're heading to the Rocky mountains . There we'll stay at a lodge near Golden for a month and celebrate Christmas there as well. 

I can't even believe what we've already experienced and what is laying in front of us. Seriously, I can't handle what great places, people and opportunities we get to know here . I think we'll learn and see so much in this half a year, it's unbelievable!!! 

The sunset yesterday