Japanese food and Tupac

Tonight Mike and I went to the neighboring suburb of Parnell to check out the local eateries. We discovered an eclectic Japanese restaurant called, Moto and I am pretty sure it was run by a Korean family. The mom was so cute she reminded me of Mike's mom. I had udon, which seems to be my choice of meal lately and Mike had a bento box. The restaurant was teeny tiny and I couldn't help but notice the waitresses high top chucks, it was warm and friendly and I just kind of wanted to stay there.

Best part of the restaurant was the mix of early 2000s rap songs featuring tupac and ice cube. I would definitely go back. Aside from the poor quality pictures, as the restaurant was quite dim, I was hoping to slightly capture the essence of this restaurant. The lemonade is an homage to the dinner I went to with our friend Erin on saturday, we went to a different Japanese restaurant and were so excited about the lemonade on the menu that we promptly ordered two. Much to our dismay, it was sprite. So I finally got Lemonade!

High-Quality organic New Zealand Lemonade

That handsome shoulder on the right, is Mike

Northlands

I finally re-did this post. Sorry for all of the technical difficulties :D

This is one of my favorite pictures because it reminds me of the church Mike and I were married in.

View from the church

Funny fruit stand

The Maori word for New Zealand is Aotearoa which means land of the long white cloud, you can see how fitting this is.

Harbour view

With fall rapidly approaching as signaled by the turning back of clocks and chilly nights I found myself reveling in the glorious sunny day today. It was perfect. However, I am all too aware that these days are to be few and far between in the coming rainy months.

Mike spent the weekend at Bay of Islands planting trees, snorkeling and harvesting mussels (will post pictures later) which left me home pondering life, love, and the over abundance of savoury meat pies in this country.

Since I have discovered mobile blogging my die-hard handful of followers can look forward to many exciting and jam packed posts in the future! For now, enjoy the following videos the first a tug boat full of tourists and the harbour walk full of tourists. Second a fancy boat full of tourists leaving the harbour that is our backyard and finally the shark van. Not as cool as the yellow duck but still pretty amusing.

It is taking over

Eczema is taking over my life. I have taken a break from my usual New Zealand bantering and photoblogging to express my severe aggravation at Eczema. For the past couple of months, I have done extreme battle with Eczema that started as a small patch on my eyelid which grew to a large patch on both eyelids, then spread to my mouth. Although I am sure that this is way too much information, I guess I'm writing as an act of desperation.

Shout out to all the other Eczema sufferers!

Seriously though, the dryness, cracking, bleeding, itching. It's terrible. I have made Mike buy all kinds of creams, including hydrocortisone, which can only be used for short periods of times, and have changed types of cream, types of soap, types of moisturizer, makeup, no makeup. It's terrible, and it won't go away!

2nd thing taking over: Mad Men

This show is amazing, I can't believe it has taken me so long to catch on to this show! I am completely addicted. Although, I marvel at all of the people who smoke, pregnant ladies, moms at the dinner table, troubled wives at the psychologist, cheating husbands. Everyone smokes.

The fashion on this show is to do for, the dresses, the flipped-out bobs, the high heels and pin-skirts with lipstick and nail polish. The nail polish, I'm completely obsessed with painting my nails with various shades of red and pink like the ladies in this show.

3rd thing taking over: Video Mania

Mike and I have recently updated our phones and can now take and upload video! I'm obsessed with taking video. Albeit, really terrible video that I have no desire and/or knowledge to edit. Watch for the videos and photos, which I really need to post but haven't had time to do yet!

White Night

White Night is part of the Auckland Arts Festival and is a free night where art enthusiasts can catch a bus and ride to various events throughout Auckland. There were all kinds of art, music, and dancing. We went with our friend Christian and although the event was free it was apparent that art exhibits aren't necessarily Mike's favorite activity. We made it to the Auckland museum and then abandoned White Night for a swim at Christian's pool.

Making telephones at the Art Museum

Waiting for the shuttle to go to the next event

Sky Tower

Tane Mahuta

 

 

 

 

Seasons changing

It has officially turned to fall here in Auckland. You would expect fall to mean things like changing leaves and bringing hoodies out of hibernation, yet fall here is not really any of those things. Fall means always carrying your umbrella and bringing out the gum boots. Mike and I have been super busy since I have started work. I know work at a law firm called A J Park, the work is busy and it is a far cry from my work with Dr. Elmore. I didn't realize first, how difficult it is to work in a different country, there are so many little things that are different that seriously throw me off like, dates, punctuation, spelling. Secondly, being the new person is tough, it is tough to work in a big new office where you don't know anyone and have to start at the bottom, an example of how new I am was on my first day after training my co worker Jess was helping me draft a letter and I wrote "cease and deceased"...instead of "cease and desist". Moments like that really make me miss working in an office where I knew how everything worked and I didn't feel overwhelmed at the thought of using a copy machine.

However, despite my insecurity I feel so blessed to have gotten this job. I believe that having experience in the legal field can really open doors for me. Mike and I have many pictures of our adventures the last weeks and I will try and get them up today, hope everyone is doing well, spring is coming....yay!