new zealand.

hey y'all i registered here to say how excellent it was to meet lxy & jergins & estela this week. i love nz too, have fun there guys and drink some CCL&P it is delicious and probably good for you.

l&p really is amazing. good for preventing car sickness too.

i'm so happy you love nz!! <3 <3 <3 the old cliche about not knowing what you have to till it's gone is so true :(

lxy: i thought shopping is aus was CHEAP! it was when i visited there a few years ago.

do you think you'll get to visit new plymouth/taranaki? i recommend it: you can drive up the mountain and go for a nice walk! view is amazing.

haha hi everybody

@harbl: yep, lots!
@estela: thank you, yes, i love it a lottttalot!
@jabba: so great to meet you, too, thanks for such being a lovely host (along with sic and pato). come visit any time (sandbox, seattle). i <3 sydney.
@ruby: (i almost called you rugby lol) yeah, aus is exp compared to the us and the nz. not that i've done tons of shopping, mind you, so maybe actual goods are cheaper? dunno. anyway, it's okay because i'm very happy to spend my $ in a different neighborhood.

xox on to the next thing!

<3 you all,
lxy

aw, it is <3warming to see you having such a splendid time!

so did u guys throw the ring in mount doom or

real enzed jaffas acquired, at last!

and l&p!

licorice&piss

nothing from p**** n*** so far.

did u like l&p???

can you guys stop speaking in code plz

nz code. u been away too long

l&p kinda nast

i just read that out to f. and he laughed hollowly.

all of a sudden we have wifi in the middle of nowhere btw

karamea isn't really a town. morelike a place.

had the worst dinner of the trip tonight

what did you eat and how was it garnished.

pasta garnished with onions and salmon. salad garnished with olives and kiwis. a gardenburger made of potatoes. drinks where ginger ale replaced soda&lime. disaster all around

not olives, grapes! with tomatoes and peppers! disaster all the way around.

i kinda liked l&p, i hope f. doesn't think less of me for it

if he does i will do a moonlight flit.

that dinner sounds horrible but not surprising.

welcome to the sandbox, jabba hands.

i don't like or understand a mixture of pasta and fish. it's ok with shrimp or mussels or clams but not fish.

salmon does well with pasta!

i wouldn't want like, trout pasta, though.

that meal sounds terrible, i am so sorry.

l&p kinda nast

― jergins

wtf

crackers to try: meal mates
cookies to try: griffin's chocolate chippies
<3<3<3

ice creams to try: jelly tips; tip top orange chocolate chip ice cream; tip top hokey pokey ice cream; tip top boysenberry ice cream

also: rocky road ice creams (the ones on a stick), either flavour

nz has such better junk food than the US, doesn't it?

oh and spearmint leaves and milk bottles (lollies)

meql mates: great
perky nana: ugh

already had meal mates and milk bottles!

wtf is up with "bottles and teeth"?????

pineapple lumps also gross

nelson is cold and not that exciting. the drive from karamea to westport today, and the drive from westport to nelson: WOW

wellington tomorrow. excited

more like mealgreats

they are my lifetime favourite crackers. i've eaten most of a packet today that my mother brought me, we were probably eating them simultaneously, hungry geists chomping in zeit.

lonely chompers just thinking baout crackers.

bye bye, south island, you have been lovely <3<3<3

north island, here we come hurray!!

nelson to picton, OMG, have you ever seen such pretty water!

new zealand is ridiculously good looking, it is the stet of countries.

<3!

ruby i walked by a store that made me think of you: eyeball kicks. do you know it?

also, please advise: where shall i find these buttered crumpets?

you buy crumpets at the grocery store, they will be with the bread. you toast them until they are browned lightly on both side and crunchy around the edges, and then you put on enough butter for it to drip out the bottom of them onto your plate, and then you add a thin layer of golden syrup (also from the grocery store).

i have never actually been into eyeball kicks! not sure what your ~style~ is but i have a feeling that you might like frutti: it's up the top end of cuba st, about a block before fidel's (a great little cafe that you'll probably like too)

estela otm

ah ok well... no toaster nor oven in our hotel

i think i saw frutti, will let you know. <3 cuba.

i asked a girl on the ferry, what's kumara? she was a bit taken aback so i said, meat? vegetable? ah, said she, it's a vegetable, like a potato. found out today in te papa it's a SWEET potato!