by Chris | Dec 21, 2009 | Blog
Today I drove out to Piha for the day. Piha is a small community on Auckland’s west coast. It’s so small we couldn’t find a dairy or cafe while we were there. Piha has a famous landmark called Lion Rock that sits right in the middle of the beach and...
by Chris | Dec 20, 2009 | Blog
We’re staying in Ponsonby while in Auckland. It’s a trendy, iconic suburb of Auckland about 15 minutes from the CBD. Every year the houses of Franklin Road put on an unofficial Christmas lights compitition, and people from all around come to see the...
by Chris | Dec 19, 2009 | Blog
Last night I went to the sold-out Green Day concert at Vector Arena in Auckland. Billy Joe and the rest of the band put on an amazing two-and-a-half hour show. There was a huge diversity of fans there, but the 25-35 age bracket was probably dominant. Everything about...
by Chris | Nov 18, 2009 | Blog
Last weekend I had several friends come over and celebrate my graceful passing into my late twenties. We discovered a few hidden gems in our liquor cabinet and encouraged the people there to have their fill. I was pushing the vanilla vodka and ginger ale, which went...
by Chris | Oct 14, 2009 | Blog
Last weekend was Thanksgiving in Canada. The last three years I missed out on a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, being in New Zealand, so it was quite nice when I randomly stumbled into the Canadians in Wellington social group and secured a spot for dinner. I had...
by Chris | Oct 10, 2009 | Blog
At the work Christmas party last year I won a free rental car for 48 hours. It was kind of ironic because the year before they had awesome techy prizes to be won, so when they announced that the big prize was a rental car I slagged it a bit…then won it. I...
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