Thursday, January 14, 2010

NZ birds and paua shells

Busy day-- went to work in Porirua while Bryce, Erin, and Dave got to stay home and have fun. Work is pretty fun still over the holidays-- I got lots of work done and found out cool things like the NZ birds on Boardmaker:

Bryce had an interview today and took Erin and Dave in to town so they could tour and shop around Cuba Street. Then they picked me up from work and we went shell hunting at along a beach in Porirua. Erin won the prize for finding the coolest paua shell-- huge with vivid blues, purples, and greens. People catch the paua (abalone) offshore, pry the meat off, and toss the shells back into water so tourists like us can pick them up. I like using mine as a soapdish, it's purty. I just ignore the scrape marks in the center of the shell where the shellfish was pried out ;-) Bryce got a call that he didn't get the interview, which wasn't the worst news in the world because he had an interview with another agency lined up for Monday. We stopped by Doug and Laura's place to say hello, and then went to yummy wonderful Noodle Canteen for some honey chicken noodles and nasi goreng. Our last night with the four of us hanging out together; Dave and Erin take the campervan on to the north end of the North Island. We will miss them, it was pretty easy living and vacationing with them.

No comments: