Don't worry Be Kiwi: mt eden

Check out my most recent catch. I doubt very much if i ever have a chance to wear it out, but looks good in my room, anyways.

Today in the morning there was a Sunday fair at my flatmate daughter's school. My flatmate Jen, her kid Amorita, nanny, Amorita's two friends from kindergarten and me went there in the morning.
The night before Jen was going to make a cake which was a task for all parents. Too bad I was away and couldn't help her out. Instead Jen bought a cake from a local supermarket and decorated it :D cheaaaaaaating!
Amorita explained to her friends in the morning why we didn't bring a home made cake as "my mom always fails". We so gonna prove her wrong one day.

The room at school was full of cakes and people, too bad I couldn't make any good pictures, some cakes looked really nice.

I appreciated the close location of two signs below: Cakes and First Aid.

We got rid of our cake really fast and went to wonder around.
As soon as we saw kids carting I knew it was going to be a horrible idea. However, kids couldn't go alone and I was forced to drive with Zhaklin. Unfortunately, I still remember too well our carting experience with friends in Helsinki when I was removed from the field for almost destroying the building. Well, same thing happened today. The guy in the red t-shirt had to save us from a crush every other second.
I guess it's a sign somebody should never-EVER be allowed to get a driving license.

Apart from humiliating yourself in front of a crowd you could also buy lots of useless stuff like toys, clothes, food, etc

There was also a lottery to win various alcohol. Don't ask me why it even happens at the school fair. Whatever, a woman in front of us won 3 bottles. Guess how many we took with Jen from two drawings each? Noooooone. As if the cake and the carting were not enough to feel bad for today ;)

And all the other fun stuff we did.

Including the local "beauty salon", not much worse than what i experienced in town, by the way. The beauty industry is just desperately awful here.

And finally, completely out of the topic, see the book we found on a bench on Symonds street this Thursday.
Creepy as it is, had no doubt we have to check it out. Well, this and that, simply being busy with boring issues, didn't have a chance to look for the place until today. It says on the book: Help! Save me from 289 Dominion Road.

Even creeper it turned out to be this: Auckland Medical Aid Center

The center was obviously closed on the weekend.
I'm still curious why somebody left the book and for whom. The place is open 8.30 am - 5 pm on Monday in case anybody wants to back me up ;)

Well, all for now, and seems like I'm coming with a post why I desperately miss Finland very soon :)
Nobody can replace my dear Finnish ones.

See ya,

Lena

Now when my wifi finally works, I can make Alina's dream come true and put a few pictures that were collected since I came to Auckland (almost 20 days ago!)
Unfortunately, my phone got broken last week and, thus, a couple of good moments shall be prevented from uploading, no well..

All my writing energy is dedicated to a resume at the moment, so don't you expect long meaningful description notes :D

p.s. dont get why editing is so poor - blogger simply hates me, i check later.

Here we go and start from around China.

Sadly indeed they didn't have a good choice of movies on board and I ended up watching "Im a legend" a few times. However, on the flight from Italy to China there was a live cam option and you could see what was happening under the plane (not much)

Half way map: Milan-Hong Kong - this is crazy

In Hong Kong facebook would not recognize my location as safe and I had to pass a test, to recognize my fb friends on random pictures. Not possible to mix Jessica with anybody else in her zombie looks))

For those who were always wondering, just like me, how Chinese keyboard looks like!

Too bad i couldnt leave the airport, mountains looked splended!

Botanic garden in Auckland. Same as in Kumpula but 500 times bigger :)

Went to check my future house and the neighborhood for the first time - around Mt Eden

The hill on the back is the actual volcano, and yep, I live in 66.

The French cafe on the near by street and I love ugly store (love the name), Turkish kebab and an Italian restaurants. I guess I miss Erasmus :)

Muriwai beach with black volcanic sand. Saw Pacific ocean for the first time, yahooo))

I really liked the story on the rock, and you should be hopefully able to read it from the picture. Anyways, the last sentence was: Come with us as we begin to untravel some of its secrets and experience a taste of living on the edge of the wind. This is my pick up line for you, friends from Europe :)

There lives a colony of birds on Muriwai, forgot their name :)

Cruise ship from USA on a windy rainy day in the city center

Chinese market. You divide prices by 1.5 to get euros. Best blueberries, cherries and corn i have ever tried :) so yam-mi!

Orewa beach, swam in the ocean for the first time, whoop whoop

Books in the local library, you know

Surprisingly, Im having tremendous problems here finding a good natural juice. Everything just has too much sugar! And this is what they have in a juice section: egg white!!

They call local rounding system ( 3 cents would be rounded to 5, 1 to 0) - Swedish :)
Self-pay counters never work for me, have to call a shop assistant at least a million of times always.