http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/TigerYuri/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from TigerYuri en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:22:50 +0000 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:22:50 +0000 Hey all Down here at the capital of NZ Wellington. It is a lovely place and the arts festival is fantastic This will be a short entry and I can't up load my photos yet unfortunately.Last Fri we drove down to Auckland. NZ roads are CRAZY. We spent the night with some friends of Mom and Brians Annie is a most fabulous lady We had a blast with a dinenr party and other people and stayed http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Wellington/blog-46148.html Just fun random stuff... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Islands/blog-45440.html I bought the cutest yogurt maker httpwww.easiyo.com Apparently it is totally common here I picked it up in one of your average grocery stores in a rather on the small side town. You just add the mix and water or milk and bit of yogurt you already have to the small container put boiling water in the big container then put in the small and wait 1220 hrs Easy And tastyYesterday Mom http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Islands/blog-45430.html Cruising Bay of Islands a composition in digital photography Day Five http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Islands/blog-45005.html Cruising Bay of Islands a composition in digital photography Day Four http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Islands/blog-44999.html Cruising Bay of Islands a composition in digital photography Day One http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Islands/blog-44992.html Cruising Bay of Islands a composition in digital photography Day ThreeFor some reason I hardly took any pictures this day. Partially it was recovering from the sea sickness from the day before http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Islands/blog-44997.html Cruising Bay of Islands a composition in digital photography Day Two http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Islands/blog-44996.html Sorry I havenrsquot written in ages I have been consumed withhellipwell reading sleeping and hanging out with mom Today it is raining raining raining.It is nice not to be frantic on vacation. Mostly when people are on vacation they zoom around madly trying to make the most as it were of each little moment by cramming it as full as possible with distracting entertaining or culturallye http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Islands/blog-44962.html Alright maybe not so much sand. And well we are in a marina so of course there isn't surf. But the food really is fantasticMum Brian and I went to Stella Maria last night for dinner. Opua is quite tiny it is only a marina and a few businesses to support a marina. Mom said that it was sold by native Maori's with the condition that it could only ever be just a marina. There are a tiny cluster http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Islands/blog-43117.html Hello friends It has been another lazy lovely day here in sunny NZ. Woke up had coffee and breakfast went to the market came home read had lunch read some more. I had all these plans for things I was going to do while I was here but really it isn't possible. Mom said that every country they have been to so far on this trip has had siesta nap in the middle of the day except NZ and they o http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Islands/blog-42980.html Last night before I went to bed Mom warned me that there was one cockroach that they had on board. Supposedly it is the large kind and so is a lone cockroach and in the south pacific where they've been everybody gets at least one. Well my little bed is right by the hatch to the outside. And in the bathrooms there were a bunch of little black crickets for some reason. Yeah bugs. Ick I didn' http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Islands/blog-42824.html Wow What a trip It was amazing delay after delay after delay but thru it all such grace under pressure if I do say so myself I am rather proud of myself since patience is not exactly my strong suit. The journey door to door or rather door to dock took 32 hoursSome highlightsG was AMAZING at helping me get ready and pack truly deserves the Most Amazing Person and Partner in the Enti http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Bay-of-Islands/blog-42691.html Eep Very little time left The great thing one of many about being with G is that I no longer wait til the last minute to throw things together and haphazardly run out the door with way too much stuff I don't need and without stuff I do need. The bad thing about that is that now I worry in advance instead of just being pissed about what I forgot I now have lists many lists What to do befor http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Olympia/blog-41836.html I'm not sure how it got to be so down to the wire Maybe being distracted by buying a house interviewing and hiring a new case manager trying to support a distraught teenager the one in my house not the 120 at work and completely revolutionizing my relationship with G whilst balancing work personal life buddhist activities and more might have something to do with it Oh and going to more http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Olympia/blog-41461.html Well I am actually still here in Olympia WA. I will be flying out to Aukland in one week So excited I haven't seen mom in nearly a year and a half And to top it off my partner and I made an offer on the cutest house in the known universe and it was accepted Horay Life is good... http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/New-Zealand/North-Island/Auckland/blog-41191.html