today is a sad day
thursday was also a sad day
tomorrow will be an even more sad day
my time in NZ is quickly coming to an end and i waver between devastation, excitement, and an overwhelming desire to just go home.
Andy left on a bus from Picton on thursday and I miss him.
I stayed in Picton for a couple more nights and now i am back in Blenheim to say goodbye to Mim.
woooah
i don't want to say goodbye to Mim.
I leave for Auz in two weeks and I'm basically pretty scared of being in such a huge country with no Nicole and no car. I'm crazy excited to see Andrew (brother) but nervous for after I leave him and am off to fend for myself for a month. I know i'll be fine, but I'm just scared. Being on my own will take some getting used to, and I'm just not there yet.
Hopefully Nicole and I will meet up for a while in Auz sometime in the next couple of months, but still, our real time travelling together is actually over. Theoretically, it was over a week ago when I left with Andy, but this time I actually have to say goodbye to her.
my wife, Nicole.
oh me oh my
she is at work right now and i am wasting time and getting things done. which seems like a contradiction, but somehow that's just the way it is
and trying to make it through a huge Subway craving
which i know that i will give in to as soon as i leave here
I Love Subway
Monday, May 28, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
PROMISE KEPT
pictures! yey! cept that the battery on my camera is dead so the only pics i have to choose from are from Andy's camera...not that it really makes a difference... but yeah... so here are a bunch of pictures of me looking like a goon in a variety of different settings
this is me in a cave thing that went through the bottom of a huge boulder on a totally deserted beach... it was pretty cool. caves are scary. that rock woulda been some pretty fantastic bouldering too, by the way.
me in a wee lil kayak in waikawa bay. my hamstrings are so tight from my silly back that i couldn't straighten my legs... pretty funny actually.
sunset at pohara beach
blew my mind
me on a beach
being protected from sandflies by the super-german-yellow-bottle-stuff that nicole and i found in a hostel a few weeks ago. it has a picture of a fly on it so we figured it must be sandfly repellant. it smells funny but seems to work well. hopefully it doesn't kill me. but yeah. anyways. me on a beach. right before we got totally pissed on by a rain storm that flooded half the towns in NZ.
me and andy. not such a flattering picture. but i like how it looks like we are moving REALLY REALLY quickly to the right. i have no idea why. probably i was moving the camera really really quickly to the left. oops.
me eating the most absolutely-fantastic-holy-moly-blew-my-mind-amazing veggie and pumpkin-kumara hummus sandwich. i could work for subway. no no wait, i could REINVENT subway. while sumultaneously putting them out of business. oh and this is in kaiteriteri, by the way.
ok so those are kinda lame but it's not my fault
i blame my camera. and the camera battery company.
ok i have nothing to say
peace out
this is me in a cave thing that went through the bottom of a huge boulder on a totally deserted beach... it was pretty cool. caves are scary. that rock woulda been some pretty fantastic bouldering too, by the way.
me in a wee lil kayak in waikawa bay. my hamstrings are so tight from my silly back that i couldn't straighten my legs... pretty funny actually.
sunset at pohara beach
blew my mind
me on a beach
being protected from sandflies by the super-german-yellow-bottle-stuff that nicole and i found in a hostel a few weeks ago. it has a picture of a fly on it so we figured it must be sandfly repellant. it smells funny but seems to work well. hopefully it doesn't kill me. but yeah. anyways. me on a beach. right before we got totally pissed on by a rain storm that flooded half the towns in NZ.
me and andy. not such a flattering picture. but i like how it looks like we are moving REALLY REALLY quickly to the right. i have no idea why. probably i was moving the camera really really quickly to the left. oops.
me eating the most absolutely-fantastic-holy-moly-blew-my-mind-amazing veggie and pumpkin-kumara hummus sandwich. i could work for subway. no no wait, i could REINVENT subway. while sumultaneously putting them out of business. oh and this is in kaiteriteri, by the way.
ok so those are kinda lame but it's not my fault
i blame my camera. and the camera battery company.
ok i have nothing to say
peace out
Thursday, May 24, 2007
I'LL POST PICS IN A COUPLE DAYS. MAYBE.
ok so yes, i have been a very neglectful blogger
i had very very good intentions to update about a week ago when we were in Wanaka, but for some reason blogger kept coming up in chinese and i spent a good twenty minutes trying to make it english but no dice. and i am just not so good at figuring out how to translate chinese, so i gave up
but alas, now i am back
when did a last post? Hokitika? oh boy that was a while ago
ok so after Hokitika, we went to Lake Tekapo, in a desperate and SUCCESSFUL attempt to escape the rain
it was very lovely there
then we went to Oamaru AND WE SAW PENGUINS!!! YES!!! PENGUINS!!! tons and tons of penguins! i think they are my new favourite animals. we saw yellow eyed penguins which were neat, but my favourites were the blue penguins. they are the smallest penguins in the world, growing up to 30cm tall. and we watched them come up onto the shore after a long day of hunting, then they all waddled up to their nests. and it was pretty hilarious because half of them take naps on their way from the water to their nests. like, they just stop waddling and fall asleep standing up. then three minutes later: waddle waddle again.
so funny
then we went to Dunedin and i bought to shoes (Garmont Negevis woot woot!) in an attempt to cure my toe problem... which is weird and probably caused by too much hiking in crappy shoes. but it's fixed now!
then we went to Port Chalmers which was very nice
then we drove through the Catlins (also very nice) to Invercargill (not so nice) then up to Queenstown where we met up with friends from Blenheim and partied like it was 1999.
then we went to milford sound and did a kayak trip that kinda wasn't so cool cause it was so windy we had to head in really early. but the drive there and back was actually the most awesome thing ever
then we went to wanaka where apparently blogger.com is in chinese
then we went to franz josef and we went hiking on the glacier for a day! and i don't like snow and i don't really like hiking and i really don't like going up. but alas, i found Hiking Up Snow to be extremely fun. who woulda thought?
then we drove up the west coast to greymouth and picked up our friend Andy from Blenheim (ok so he's not FROM blenheim, but that's where we met him) and we (and by we, i mean nicole. i was official dj. andy was official music critic) drove all the way back to blenheim in one day. and there we had a small blenheim reunion. or, as Jork called it, a "Blenheim Revival". and it was so much fun to see everybody and have another sushi night. but also it was really strange because we were back in our old house and some of the people were the same but the rest of the people were totally different people and they just weren't so cool and they were pretty anti social and it was like "hey, who are you? why are you in MY house?"
cept it's not my house. it's just a hostel
oh well
and now nicole is still there and she is working again for the same dude that we worked for before
and i left with Andy and we drove back up to golden bay (where nicole and i went about three weeks ago) and we stayed in Pohara and saw a kickbutt sunset and went back to Cape Farewell. and now we are in Picton. today we went kayaking on malborough sounds in the little 7 foot free kayaks at the hostel that we are staying in and it was pretty sweet and hilarious and very different from paddling long sea kayaks like i am used to. but fun too. and we hung out on some people's dock for a while but the house looked closed up so probably they didn't mind since they don't know. oooooo such a reble, i am.
anyways
andy gets on the bus tomorrow (from here, picton - such is why we are here) to go tour the south island and i'm gonna go back to blenheim to see nicole for a day or two (holy moly i miss her so much right now. it's so weird not being with her every day. this is the longest that we have been apart in four months.... i feel like i have been divorced or something) then after that i'm gonna head to Christchurch cause i gotta sell m'car before i head out to Perth, Auz on the 10th of June
anybody wanna buy a car?
i had very very good intentions to update about a week ago when we were in Wanaka, but for some reason blogger kept coming up in chinese and i spent a good twenty minutes trying to make it english but no dice. and i am just not so good at figuring out how to translate chinese, so i gave up
but alas, now i am back
when did a last post? Hokitika? oh boy that was a while ago
ok so after Hokitika, we went to Lake Tekapo, in a desperate and SUCCESSFUL attempt to escape the rain
it was very lovely there
then we went to Oamaru AND WE SAW PENGUINS!!! YES!!! PENGUINS!!! tons and tons of penguins! i think they are my new favourite animals. we saw yellow eyed penguins which were neat, but my favourites were the blue penguins. they are the smallest penguins in the world, growing up to 30cm tall. and we watched them come up onto the shore after a long day of hunting, then they all waddled up to their nests. and it was pretty hilarious because half of them take naps on their way from the water to their nests. like, they just stop waddling and fall asleep standing up. then three minutes later: waddle waddle again.
so funny
then we went to Dunedin and i bought to shoes (Garmont Negevis woot woot!) in an attempt to cure my toe problem... which is weird and probably caused by too much hiking in crappy shoes. but it's fixed now!
then we went to Port Chalmers which was very nice
then we drove through the Catlins (also very nice) to Invercargill (not so nice) then up to Queenstown where we met up with friends from Blenheim and partied like it was 1999.
then we went to milford sound and did a kayak trip that kinda wasn't so cool cause it was so windy we had to head in really early. but the drive there and back was actually the most awesome thing ever
then we went to wanaka where apparently blogger.com is in chinese
then we went to franz josef and we went hiking on the glacier for a day! and i don't like snow and i don't really like hiking and i really don't like going up. but alas, i found Hiking Up Snow to be extremely fun. who woulda thought?
then we drove up the west coast to greymouth and picked up our friend Andy from Blenheim (ok so he's not FROM blenheim, but that's where we met him) and we (and by we, i mean nicole. i was official dj. andy was official music critic) drove all the way back to blenheim in one day. and there we had a small blenheim reunion. or, as Jork called it, a "Blenheim Revival". and it was so much fun to see everybody and have another sushi night. but also it was really strange because we were back in our old house and some of the people were the same but the rest of the people were totally different people and they just weren't so cool and they were pretty anti social and it was like "hey, who are you? why are you in MY house?"
cept it's not my house. it's just a hostel
oh well
and now nicole is still there and she is working again for the same dude that we worked for before
and i left with Andy and we drove back up to golden bay (where nicole and i went about three weeks ago) and we stayed in Pohara and saw a kickbutt sunset and went back to Cape Farewell. and now we are in Picton. today we went kayaking on malborough sounds in the little 7 foot free kayaks at the hostel that we are staying in and it was pretty sweet and hilarious and very different from paddling long sea kayaks like i am used to. but fun too. and we hung out on some people's dock for a while but the house looked closed up so probably they didn't mind since they don't know. oooooo such a reble, i am.
anyways
andy gets on the bus tomorrow (from here, picton - such is why we are here) to go tour the south island and i'm gonna go back to blenheim to see nicole for a day or two (holy moly i miss her so much right now. it's so weird not being with her every day. this is the longest that we have been apart in four months.... i feel like i have been divorced or something) then after that i'm gonna head to Christchurch cause i gotta sell m'car before i head out to Perth, Auz on the 10th of June
anybody wanna buy a car?
Friday, May 4, 2007
THE COLONOSCOPY
ok so i am trying to upload these pictures
AND IT'S NOT WORKING
and this computer ate my blank CD
i officially hate this computer
I'll try again at the next place we go to.
Nicole, however, did somehow manage to get a bunch of pics up - so check out her blog to see more of Blenheim, etc
as for me, i got these two EXTREMLY SPECTACULAR ones up before the whole thing went downhill...
a bunch of us at the top of Mt Vernon
ooooooh aaaaaah
I baked! Yes! I did! Well... sortof. but whatever, they were delicious. (cinnamon buns)
i got sommore good un's.... i'll try again in a coupla days maybe
AND IT'S NOT WORKING
and this computer ate my blank CD
i officially hate this computer
I'll try again at the next place we go to.
Nicole, however, did somehow manage to get a bunch of pics up - so check out her blog to see more of Blenheim, etc
as for me, i got these two EXTREMLY SPECTACULAR ones up before the whole thing went downhill...
a bunch of us at the top of Mt Vernon
ooooooh aaaaaah
I baked! Yes! I did! Well... sortof. but whatever, they were delicious. (cinnamon buns)
i got sommore good un's.... i'll try again in a coupla days maybe
Thursday, May 3, 2007
WOOT WOOT
it's picture time again
which is exciting like christmas
but unpleasant like a colonoscopy
especially on this computer which i think was built in 1804
and reminds me a bit of my car
funny noises, odd smells, sputters and shakes
guzzles money like there is no tomorrow
right now we are in Hokitika
and i'm pretty sure that every time i write that, i rearrange the consonants and mix up the vowels
Hitokika? Hakokiti? something.
It's on the west coast of the South Island AND IT STOPPED RAINING TODAY!
and holy moly the clouds lifted, and much to my surprise: there are mountains here! just a little ways over there! big snowy peaks! and further south they get bigger and bigger and closer and closer to the sea and i'm pretty freakin stoked for heading down that way
which will happen soon
not tomorrow
but probably the next day
it's gonna be cold further south but it's ok cause we bought mits and scarves so we are all set
not to mention, tremendously stylish
ok this computer is taking FOREVER.
i will post pics tomorrow
hopefully
g'night
which is exciting like christmas
but unpleasant like a colonoscopy
especially on this computer which i think was built in 1804
and reminds me a bit of my car
funny noises, odd smells, sputters and shakes
guzzles money like there is no tomorrow
right now we are in Hokitika
and i'm pretty sure that every time i write that, i rearrange the consonants and mix up the vowels
Hitokika? Hakokiti? something.
It's on the west coast of the South Island AND IT STOPPED RAINING TODAY!
and holy moly the clouds lifted, and much to my surprise: there are mountains here! just a little ways over there! big snowy peaks! and further south they get bigger and bigger and closer and closer to the sea and i'm pretty freakin stoked for heading down that way
which will happen soon
not tomorrow
but probably the next day
it's gonna be cold further south but it's ok cause we bought mits and scarves so we are all set
not to mention, tremendously stylish
ok this computer is taking FOREVER.
i will post pics tomorrow
hopefully
g'night
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