upnorthkyosa in kiwiland

[crushing]

Aug 17th. We'll be flying back from Auckland on this date and into new adventures...

Don't forget to bring back some of their excellent shoe polish!!!!

 

[OUMoose]

Can I just send you a shopping list to bring back for me?

1) 2 cases of "V" berry... the green one is rough, but the red one..smooooth
2) 1 case of "Crunchy" bars.
3) 1 case of potato-top pies. Can't find anyone here to make them, and CBF to make them myself.
4) At least 3 different pizzas from Hell Pizza (Preferably, a "Mordor", "Pandemonium", and perhaps some "Spirit" pasta)
5) A couple bottles of 42-below. Preferably the Manuka honey flavor.

*sigh*

I do miss some stuff from over there. heh.

 

[Makalakumu]

Can I just send you a shopping list to bring back for me?

1) 2 cases of "V" berry... the green one is rough, but the red one..smooooth
2) 1 case of "Crunchy" bars.
3) 1 case of potato-top pies. Can't find anyone here to make them, and CBF to make them myself.
4) At least 3 different pizzas from Hell Pizza (Preferably, a "Mordor", "Pandemonium", and perhaps some "Spirit" pasta)
5) A couple bottles of 42-below. Preferably the Manuka honey flavor.

*sigh*

I do miss some stuff from over there. heh.

Great list! All of that stuff is excellent, especially the pizza. It's like nothing we have over here in the US. In fact, all of the food is better here. I'm not sure why. Maybe its the clean and green way the kiwis run their farms and food industry, I'm not sure. Anyways, it's been great. I'm flying back at 5:00 pm NZ time. That is in about seven hours. I'll post pics when I get back. All I can say now is that my wife and I are definitely moving. We can't even describe how beautiful everything is over here...

 

[Makalakumu]

Well, I'm back after three flights and a total of 15 hours of flight. I'm a little jet lagged. I'll post pictures later...

 

[Sukerkin]

Welcome home Upnorth - looking forward with eagerness to seeing the pictures .

 

[Makalakumu]

Well, here is the first round of pics...

 

[Makalakumu]

Here is another round...

 

[Makalakumu]

And another...

 

[Makalakumu]

And lastly...

 

[Makalakumu]

And now for some weirdness...

 

[michaeledward]

No Hobbits? No Elves? No Dwarves? What's up with that?

Nice trout ..... what is that, about 21" ... from a lake? Did you get any in the streams / rivers with that fly rod?


I spent three days in the 'North country' this week. The fishing was great. A did a triple, salmon, rainbow and brookie. To get the home run, I would have had to move down the river to find the browns. And I was having too much fun where I was.

 

[Makalakumu]

It's winter in NZ, so many of the streams were closed to fishing. On the North Island, the stream fishing was open, but pretty much everything on the south island was closed except for fishing the lakes. Thus, except for a short time on the North Island, my fly rod was pretty much useless. As it stands, that trout came out at 46 cm. That was the size limit for the lakes. My wife nailed a 80 cm trout harling a fly. My friend has some good pictures of that...

I did get to see quite a few LOTR locations. It's easy to see why they were in the movies. Most of the most beautiful pictures down there were used in the movie in some way.

 

[OUMoose]

Those were some great pictures, UpNorth! Glad to see you had a good time.

Someday I'll go back to see everything again, but those flights are rough. Did you take Quantas, or another carrier?

 

[Makalakumu]

I took Quantas and I will always fly Quantas whenever possible. I have never seen an airline like that before. It puts carrier we have in the US to shame. Also, they offer a high level of service, for really really cheap.

 

[crushing]

Are you still considering moving to N.Z.? If so, at least you won't have to worry about this problem (unless you're really good with photoshop and really aren't the fine fit man we see in your pictures lol!).

Richie Trezise, 35, a rugby-playing Welshman, lost weight to gain entry to New Zealand after initially being rejected for being overweight and a potential burden on the health care system.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/17/wfat117.xml

 

[Makalakumu]

Yeah, I'm still planning on it. That story is wrong in so many ways, but it's a natural result of socialized medicine. The democracy, has a strong incentive to promote health and healthy immigration because ultimately the taxpayer have to pay the bill for people's decisions.

I can see arguments for and against this on both sides.