04 – jan 22: everything in this garden is lovely

the morning was marked with me not wanting to wake up at any costs, and us departing last from the hostel out of all the people that were staying there. we’ve had some more of those farm fresh eggs for breakfast, some tea, and a desert of lens cleaning (which is mindblowingly difficult to do! help!).

we departed the place around 10:30am, and now it is 4:09pm and we’ve been driving essentially non stop. one stop was made around 12pm for some supplies for the road – water, juice, cheese, crackers, powerbars, grapes (ohmygosh i want more. they are expensive here – $10/kg, but now of course i’m craving them), and apples.

we’re about 30 kms away from the final big city before our hostel where we’ll buy our dinner stuff – chicken and spaghetti and i’ll figure out some sauce, i guess. most likely tomatoes cause they should be good and fresh here.

my nose and cheecks are red – a bit burned – despite the 45spf sunscreen we keep applying. generally speaking my face looks less pale, but i still didnt have a chance to just lie in the sun and TAN, and i really can’t wait to do that.

upon arrival to our lovely hostel of which neither me or oleg take any photographs, we were so tired so we just lounged around the place for the rest of the day, thus not leaving much for me to write about. we looked out on the view (which we do have photos of), eventually cooked dinner (from the store bought chicken and pasta and tomato sauce), and soon thereafter went to sleep, after talking to some other hostelers.

interesting points learned today:

  • oleg learned to now open his mouth while walking around with a headlight, as a bug flew in and took a while to come out.
  • we learned that kiwi bbqs don’t have the top lid, leaving the task of bbqing a chicken quite difficult. andrew, another hosteler, who came back to NZ with his wife kim and 1 year old miles, adviced us to boil it first and then grill it.
  • i learned how to play with a cat (in terms of making it chase after a tree branch) (it was quiestionable who made who chase)
  • i overheard germans next door to us talking and i recognized one word – jaggermeister. i of course perked up and said “jaggermeister! thats a word i can recognize in any language!” to which they explained that they were wishing for a shot right there. lesson learned: carry jaggermeister with you, always
  • grapes in NZ cost $10/kg. OUCH. someone tell me the canadian price?
  • chicken is the cheapest meat and not lamb, despite having 3mil people and 30mil sheep

    • fell asleep by 11, time to wake up – 8 am. and i’m still thinking that’s not enough sleep!

    3 thoughts on “04 – jan 22: everything in this garden is lovely”

    1. haha make sure you don’t carry jaggermeister when you’re driving a car. the police frown upon that. and you’re probably better off not knowing how much $10/kg is in CDN. and the reason there’s no lid on a kiwi bbq is because kiwi birds are tiny and don’t take long to cook.

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