well, i've finally got my internal clock on kiwi time, but that means it's harder to communicate with you fine people back home, which sucks. also, for some reason i'm not able to send/receive text messages. so, i guess i still need to sort out this communication thing. internet is outrageously expensive: $6/hour.
ok, so... today.
today i slept in, which was much needed after spending the last couple days on a bus with a time schedule. then i ate some yogurt and a pear on the beach and walked to the town to buy a long black. after my caffeine-fix, i took a couple bikes with my german friend, sophie, the rocky part of the coast where i ate green-lipped mussels and hummus. (this probably sounds like a horrible combination, but i promise it was the tastiest, cheapest meal i've eaten so far)
we then rode up to the waitangi treaty grounds. this was where the brits signed a treaty saying they'd respect the maoris and their culture, but i think we all know how that worked out...given the track record of the english. the treaty grounds were beautiful, and if i can get this shitty wireless connection to work, then i'll upload them to flickr. there was a forest of ferns and kauri trees that met a rolling green lawn that spread to the beach. it's basically every beautiful natural thing that you'd want to see (mountains, sea, trees, green grass, rocky beach, sandy beach) all rolled into one little paradise.
there were even bunnies; one big black one and three small cottontails. they have gluten-free products in the grocery store, a large selection like it's no big deal. and all the products display their ingredients so i don't have to guess if i'm going to get poisoned or not.
i did fall off my bike today and scraped my knee up pretty nicely. my klutzy track-record is starting to worry me. at this rate i'm going to poke my eye out by next tuesday.
2 comments:
We are all thinking about you and enjoying your trip also through the beautiful photos and your terrific descriptions of your day. Also, wonderful to hear that the jetlag has gone through the course. That can be murder. It's not the food combo that concerns me, but thinking about all the mussels I've eaten and never thought about the color of their lips--green? I've eaten tongue and thought about it licking me back. Never thought about lips and them kissing me back---nice. Glad to see you are working out the glue thing. Keep healthy, happy and safe.
Love, love love you, M
ashleigh, it's awesome that you've been keeping up with this blog! tiffany mentioned it the other day and i've been reading it since day 2! it's rather surprising to find out that someone i've met actually blogs regularly (outside of the geeky tech-crowd i'm usually around).
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