new zealand.

Star of our current production is new zealish. Got a vm from the embassy inviting him to come be honored and it made me think of j&j <3

hi guys! we are fuckin exhausted and having a relaxing eve in our hotel room. harbz, hallensteins is a gross and cheap menswear store here. i will personallly stop by tomorrow and tell them to leave you alone.

jergz & lx: did you visit the karori wildlife sanctuary while you were here? i never went the whole 10yrs i lived here but we went yesterday and it is really beautiful. we saw a TUATARA!

our kiwi star stopped by will call tonight and he is DREAMY just fyi.

hi ruby i am so glad u having a good time in nz. we didn't go to the sanctuary, mostly walked around town. glad to hear ytth is into hiking possibilities. we drove out to the end of the heapy track and i def had some WOWS WHAT would it be like 2 start this? i think abt nz a lot: green like here but different. the other side of a coin, you kmow the value it's just another way to look @ the value. and it's upside down.
me and lx were doing the reminisce y-day and thought back to this funny old man bar in greymouth, soccer scarves in every corner, rugby on tv, a fkin sunset outside, over the river. lx got salty fries and i got whiskey and 7-up yuck and then we walked alomg the river and both thought (confirmed later) 'damn no one knows where we are, this is A PLACE.' across the street was a building that said BANK OF NEW ZEALAND but the ppl had whited it out also it said A NEW LAND. fuckin great ajd there you have it, new zealand. have fun and post pix!

skimming this i read 'salty eyes' not salty fries

chances are i got salty eyes at some point

sultry eyes at the bookstore point.

ruby, i texted you on saturday but you probably don't have your phone on. but i wanted to wish you a happy party and a happy trip. i'm glad ytth likes nz, i thought he would. i was really going to try to get to your party, it would have worked out well with seeing my father, had i not got these stupid shingles. which aren't very bad at all, i've been lucky, but i can't risk giving him chicken pox when his immune system is already suppressed. maybe next time you're there it will work out! <3<3<3

<3 <3 <3!!! i didn't get yr text estela but thanks!

well, we had quite an adventure:

i got food poisoning the day of our wedding party, so i was pretty subdued and couldn't eat anything, but i rallied despite the fact that i had a mega crying fit about 20mins before we had to be at the restaurant bc i felt so ill. loved seeing my friends, didn't really get to talk to a few of them, felt totally bummed that it really wasn't the 'party' i had anticipated.

all my friends and my italians loved loved loved jordan (of course!).

went to new plymouth and:
went up the mountain (jordan totally tripped out on the scenery)
went to the dinky little observatory i loved as a kid, but they're no longer running the planetarium which was basically my most favourite thing in the world HOWEVER afterwards we were outside and HOLY SHIT we saw this incredibly bright and beautiful 'shooting star' plus two less extravagant ones
it rained and thundered and lightning'd like CRAZY the last 3 days we were there - we went for this drive along the 'forgotten world highway' which was incredibly beautiful - through this isolated gorge and then to this amazing huge waterfall (the highest or second highest in the nth island depending on which book you check)
i ate too much lamb and basically had stomach issues the whole time we were in nz, i forgot that i no longer eat much meat, let alone meat fat, and it kind of did me in. then i caught an annoying cold with a terrible scratchy cough

jordan got v v good at his maori pronunciation

we fed the ducks at pukekura park and i was sad to see the koi fish and the swans are gone, and they tore down a big part of the zoo.

and we climbed paritutu rock which was quite the challenge - can't believe we used to literally scamper up there as kids, i was just about dead when we got to the top.

ATTENTION LXY: i have jaffas for you!!! we didn't end up bringing back much stuff for ourselves, we were pretty junkfooded-out by the time we left.

and lastly: had the worst plane ride of my life, in fact the one of the worst experiences of my life, coming back to the US. we hit turbulence after about an hour, which then lasted for another 4 hours - really really bad turbulence, i was nauseous for most of the flight. jordan doesn't fly well due to a serious accident a few years back, so you can imagine that this situation really raised his anxiety levels pretty high.

and really lastly this time: by day 10 i was ready to come 'home'.

oh, i want to go to new zealand! the ladies on america's next top model traveled there, and i realized how gorgeous it is! if you guys plan a hiking trip there, i may stow away in your suitcase (hah! like i'd fit!).

so glad you guys had such a lovely trip (minus the food poisoning). but i am also glad you are back in our world, even if i don't even get to hang out with you.

tza i wasn't sure what to get you, as i don't want to bust up your NN lifestyle BUT i do have two pineapple lump bars if you're interested!!

"please let her say no," smoove prayed fervently.

i am going to eat:
lots of BLTs
roast lamb with mint sauce
lamb chops with mint sauce
custard squares
raspberry lamingtons
chocolate lamingtons
cream-filled long doughnuts
eclairs
mince and cheese pies
bridge pies
potato top pies
lots of marmite and butter on slices of vogels

ruby i emailed you my address so you can just pop those jaffas right into the mail tomorrow.

thank you very very much my dear xox <3, lxy.

i posted the jaffas to lxy and pineapple lumps to tza TODAY

RUBY!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!! <3<3<3<3

(i cast a magic spell to help facilitate: it was comprised of eating the last 6 jaffas from the bag jergins gave me. and i even let him have one. magic.)

was gonna send you 4 bags but ytth only let me send 3

oh ytth.

well, i can hardly criticize a man who did the thing i would do.

thanks again, ruby. it's awesome of you!

did you know he brought home 14 king sized blocks of whitaker's chocolate

i have to hide them and dole them out over the next 2 years

rubyredddddd, you've made my heart sing:

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thank you so much for the <3<3<3 candy!

<3 you are totally welcome. we would have brought back more, but thanks to ytth losing his wallet right before we left for the airport, we only had 4 mins for our supermarket stop.

thanking you for pineapple lumps!

some day i want to try a perky nana why bc it sounds intersting.

thx 4 jaffas i enjoying them

perky nanas are better than pineapple lumps, actually! and tbh pineapple lump bars aren't that good bc the chocolate to pineapple ratio isn't high enough. next time i will bring you perky nanas!!

i forgot to tell you guys that when we were at the observatory i totally lol'd at the astronomer dude referring to uranus as URanus, obv putting the stress on the first syllable to make it sound less snickery. i still snickered tho.