January 23

This weekend we had Megan and Angela spend the night.  There was a YSA pool activity and then on Saturday we planned on going to a local swap meet.  Unfortunately, it was a rainy, rainy weekend.  In fact, we got drenched walking home.  It sort of reminded me of the mission; actually, it reminded me a lot of the mission, but fortunately we didn't need to stay outdoors.  The pool activity was fine, there was, as always, lots of food (I do enjoy the New Zealand version of the hot dog!) but it was a bit too cold for my liking and consequentially I did not swim.  A lot of people actually came out.

After we tried a yummy treat named poke, which in New Zealand is NOT raw fish!  It's more like kulolo in coconut cream.  Very delicious!

On Saturday we went to the swap meet, which was pretty cool.  There's lots of touristy stuff for cheap...I may or may not be getting souveneirs for you there, people!  It was still rainy so it wasn't nearly as crowded.  Then we went to a place called Crystal Mountain.  It's basically a museum and shop of different types of crystalized rocks; a geologist's dream.  We were there for about 20 minutes when all that there was to do was done, and then we kinda just wandered around until we got picked up again.  But the cafe was nice and it was good to not be walking around in the rain, I guess.

 

There were some huge rocks there!

The day cleared up a bit, and in the evening we went mini golfing by the airport.  Oh!  We also tried a deep fried Moro bar, which is like a cross between a 3 Musketeers bar and a Milky Way bar.  It was at some random Chinese take-out place.  It was yum-o!  But I did not finish it because it was way too much sugar and fat for one sitting.

It was pirate themed.