First Real Day in NZ (part 2)

This day was so long that I had to divide it into parts. Plus the blog thing was being dumb and wasn't adding pictures where I wanted them to...

My host family is the Skeens. They are great and set us up in a nice place. We are in their basement and it's like our own little apartment. 

Oh, so to flush the toilet here you push a button. And there are two different buttons. It took us awhile to figure out when to push what. But depending on what you do is what you flush!

 This is my bed while unpacking. I got the flowers :)

Our room of beds

So the weather is really bipolar here and it will go from sunny to down pour of rain. We went to the store to get a few things, I needed a bathing suit.

Can you believe that mascara is that much! Crazy.

This has taken some getting used to. It's toilets not the bathroom or restroom.

The day continues, we've done all of this and it's still only like 2 in the afternoon. I wanted to nap so bad but i knew I wasn't suppose to because of jet lag and blah blah... So we went to the grocery store next to get the basic needs, which sadly did not include Dr. Pepper.

Christmas is in the summer so Santa needed different transportation and outfit 

Their magazines come with little black dresses, thankfully one size fits most!

A shopping cart is called a trolley here. Also, you have to pay for each individual bag you use to put your groceries in AND you have to bag it yourself. Everything is so expensive here. You get your fruit from fruit stands that have the best deal, chicken from the chicken shop. 

So the day still had not ended and it cleared up a little bit so we drove through the city to a beach. It's about half an hour away from where we live.

This is the famous Sky Tower, it's like the Space Needle in Seattle. Really not sure of it's purpose besides being tall...

This is the host family's daughter Adia (2). The water was cold and it was windy so we just put our feet in. We only stayed like 10 minutes and then went to get fish and chips for dinner. Which chips are french fries, not potato chips.

So I ate the french fries and that's about it. I just wasn't feeling the fish too much. But ketchup is tomato sauce here. People stare at you weird if you ask for ketchup.
After dinner we did the dishes and then talked with our host family and then I went to bed at 9:00 pm. Longest day ever but great!!