<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 onesit 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'.
― smoove operator, Monday, 17 May 2010 01:10 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― tehresa, Monday, 17 May 2010 01:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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!!
― smoove operator, Monday, 17 May 2010 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link
"please let her say no," smoove prayed fervently.
― estela, Monday, 17 May 2010 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i am going to eat:lots of BLTsroast lamb with mint saucelamb chops with mint saucecustard squaresraspberry lamingtonschocolate lamingtonscream-filled long doughnuts eclairsmince and cheese piesbridge piespotato top pieslots of marmite and butter on slices of vogels
― smoove operator, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:48 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― lxy, Monday, 17 May 2010 05:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i posted the jaffas to lxy and pineapple lumps to tza TODAY
― smoove operator, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link
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.)
― lxy, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link
was gonna send you 4 bags but ytth only let me send 3
― smoove operator, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 04:38 (thirteen years ago) link
oh ytth.
well, i can hardly criticize a man who did the thing i would do.
thanks again, ruby. it's awesome of you!
― lxy, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 05:03 (thirteen years ago) link
did you know he brought home 14 king sized blocks of whitaker's chocolate
― smoove operator, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 05:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i have to hide them and dole them out over the next 2 years
― smoove operator, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 05:59 (thirteen years ago) link
rubyredddddd, you've made my heart sing:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3381/4625039140_5d0691d715.jpg
thank you so much for the <3<3<3 candy!
― lxy, Thursday, 20 May 2010 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
<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.
― smoove operator, Thursday, 20 May 2010 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
thanking you for pineapple lumps!
some day i want to try a perky nana why bc it sounds intersting.
― tehresa, Sunday, 23 May 2010 05:15 (thirteen years ago) link
thx 4 jaffas i enjoying them
― jergins, Sunday, 23 May 2010 06:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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!!
― smoove operator, Sunday, 23 May 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― smoove operator, Sunday, 23 May 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link