Mission Bay
12:35 AM
We went to Mission Bay today!!! If I recall properly, Mission Bay was the talk of the town when I first arrived at Auckland. Along with Waiheke Island and Mount Eden and Devonport and perhaps Rangitoto and Rotorua, this was one of the "must visit" destinations. What was even more legendary was the Movenpick ice cream that everyone kept talking about. Movenpick's the Haagen Daz of New Zealand. Weird. I've never tasted Haagen Daz to this date.
We intended to walk there at first, but the sun wasn't out and Joanna was against it and two of us had longer legs than the other two (no prizes for guessing which category I fell into). So we ended up walking to Britomart where we got day bus passes for NZD 5.50 per person...
Who's we?
The outgoing crazy sensible RA - Trish
The Oblivious Hyperactive Mormon - Courtney
The one who makes Inappropriate faces/comments - Muah
The Ipod-er who's camera shy yet takes awesome pictures of people in their natural state of being - JoBanana
As soon as we arrived, my camera was out and clicking away. I have grown even fonder of my Nikon Coolpix eversince coming here. It's almost ancient but it's serving me so well.
With Trish on the bus. Look at my cheesy smile!! Urgh...
Courtney's all peaced out.... Couldn't take one of JoBanana coz we had arrived right after I took this one.
The four of us on the beach with Rangitoto Island behind us.
Courtney doing her victory dance after chasing the sea gulls and shooing them away. She has this thing about not being able to see any sorta bird wandering peacefully in her presence. Seriously. Sparrows. Sea gulls. Pigeons. Count on Courtney to annihilate the term "as free as a bird".
The lost wanderer. It was cold, but I have sufficient insulation to feel warm.... Pfft.
And then, we found the rock overlooking the water and all (posing) hell broke loose....
take one - high
take two - oblivion
take three - accusation
take four - angst gone wrong
take five - freedom???
There were a few hundred more takes - suicidal, apprehension, yada yada yada..... but no point wasting good written space. Heh... And then, LUNCH!!!!!
We bought fish and chips from the take away shop across the road and ate by the beach coz this is what people normally do. Turns out.. Bad idea. The birds took advantage of this to plot their revenge against Courtney. They flocked towards us, eyeing the food, hypnotized by it's smell. I think we drove them to desperation. Coz Courtney continously chased them in circles while Trish succeeded in luring them somewhat. Talk about confusion!!!!!!
And then, to reward ourselves, (for what?????) we headed over to the legend itself..... Movenpick..... for ice cream. But only JoBanana and I ended up eating. And true. The ice cream was legendary.....mainly for it's sugar overload..... I elevated my insulin levels on Macadamia and Chocolate flavoured giant scoops in a honey glazed sickeningly sweet cone. While Joanna went for Walnut and chocolate in a cone..... Yum! No dinner for me....
JoBanana and me - U see la.... Two spoons and I'm hiiiiigh....
Trish and Courtney holding our ice cream cones for a picture....
And then right, I don't know how or why, they ended up fighting for Courtney's half sucked lolly..
But all was sweet. Coz the next thing we knew, they were pondering over Courtney's little book of quotes which she brought with her......
Meanwhile..... JoBanana and I continued to pig out... and still pose for the camera. Girls are indeed multi taskers. Bless us...
To burn some of it off, we went to play ball on the beach.... From volleyball to monkey to donkey (no seriously, these were Courtney- recommended games) and football and then rotate-and-catch-the-ball, we played it all.. Thanks to the Huia footie.. held by Courtney...
Some Chinese tourists stopped by and had a good laugh at us and our ball playing skills.... Only the uber cool play ball on the beach on a cold winter's evening....
The only catch was, we had to make sure the ball didn't get into the water where it was impossible to retrieve..... LOL...Hence, Jo and Trish here, running after the ball.... I am not in any of these pics coz duh, I was the one taking them...
Anyways, due to all this exaggerated hype, I was eagerly looking forward to this Aucky day trip. And I suppose it was an interesting trip. Sadly, Mission Bay is more of a go-there-eat-and-laze-around place rather than a go-there-and-look-for-adventurous-pursuits place. But, but, but....the four of us turned it into a day trip to remember.
We intended to walk there at first, but the sun wasn't out and Joanna was against it and two of us had longer legs than the other two (no prizes for guessing which category I fell into). So we ended up walking to Britomart where we got day bus passes for NZD 5.50 per person...
Who's we?
The outgoing crazy sensible RA - TrishThe Oblivious Hyperactive Mormon - CourtneyThe one who makes Inappropriate faces/comments - MuahThe Ipod-er who's camera shy yet takes awesome pictures of people in their natural state of being - JoBananaAs soon as we arrived, my camera was out and clicking away. I have grown even fonder of my Nikon Coolpix eversince coming here. It's almost ancient but it's serving me so well.
With Trish on the bus. Look at my cheesy smile!! Urgh...Courtney's all peaced out.... Couldn't take one of JoBanana coz we had arrived right after I took this one.The four of us on the beach with Rangitoto Island behind us.Courtney doing her victory dance after chasing the sea gulls and shooing them away. She has this thing about not being able to see any sorta bird wandering peacefully in her presence. Seriously. Sparrows. Sea gulls. Pigeons. Count on Courtney to annihilate the term "as free as a bird".The lost wanderer. It was cold, but I have sufficient insulation to feel warm.... Pfft.And then, we found the rock overlooking the water and all (posing) hell broke loose....take one - hightake two - obliviontake three - accusationtake four - angst gone wrongtake five - freedom???There were a few hundred more takes - suicidal, apprehension, yada yada yada..... but no point wasting good written space. Heh... And then, LUNCH!!!!!
We bought fish and chips from the take away shop across the road and ate by the beach coz this is what people normally do. Turns out.. Bad idea. The birds took advantage of this to plot their revenge against Courtney. They flocked towards us, eyeing the food, hypnotized by it's smell. I think we drove them to desperation. Coz Courtney continously chased them in circles while Trish succeeded in luring them somewhat. Talk about confusion!!!!!!And then.... one of the most traumatizing events in my life!! A sparrow flew inches past my face and grabbed a fry from my grasp. I could feel the tug!!! And it was darn freaky ok. We were all in shock for a few seconds. And I kept retorting in horror. A few people on the beach began laughing at us.... Wrath.... Courtney!!! Arghhhhhh... victim = me. Why!??? Technically, JoBanana was a victim as well coz after a while we discovered that the sparrows had eased themselves on various parts of her and her belongings. Poor JoBanana, she was covered in bird poop!!!
And then, to reward ourselves, (for what?????) we headed over to the legend itself..... Movenpick..... for ice cream. But only JoBanana and I ended up eating. And true. The ice cream was legendary.....mainly for it's sugar overload..... I elevated my insulin levels on Macadamia and Chocolate flavoured giant scoops in a honey glazed sickeningly sweet cone. While Joanna went for Walnut and chocolate in a cone..... Yum! No dinner for me....JoBanana and me - U see la.... Two spoons and I'm hiiiiigh....Trish and Courtney holding our ice cream cones for a picture....And then right, I don't know how or why, they ended up fighting for Courtney's half sucked lolly..But all was sweet. Coz the next thing we knew, they were pondering over Courtney's little book of quotes which she brought with her......Meanwhile..... JoBanana and I continued to pig out... and still pose for the camera. Girls are indeed multi taskers. Bless us...To burn some of it off, we went to play ball on the beach.... From volleyball to monkey to donkey (no seriously, these were Courtney- recommended games) and football and then rotate-and-catch-the-ball, we played it all.. Thanks to the Huia footie.. held by Courtney...Some Chinese tourists stopped by and had a good laugh at us and our ball playing skills.... Only the uber cool play ball on the beach on a cold winter's evening....The only catch was, we had to make sure the ball didn't get into the water where it was impossible to retrieve..... LOL...Hence, Jo and Trish here, running after the ball.... I am not in any of these pics coz duh, I was the one taking them...We got on the bus half an hour later. But I must say, a day well spent. Mission Bay lived up to my expectations. I can't say that I'd feel the same way if it weren't for Trish, JoBanana and Courtney's presence though.
That's all for now folks. You know you love me!
xoxo
2 comments:
i too have not tasted Haagen Daz before.. looks like ure having a blast.. why can u keep travelling?!! -_- *envious*
haha.. oh congrats on ur results! and ps- u do NOT own tuzki rabbit
Mike!!
But u r the ice cream man, how is tht possible?? I keep travelling to random places IN Auckland only. Not enough money to travel outside yet... *sobs*
Hope Aussie's treating you well!
ps : I DOOOO own tuzki rabbit. You own onion(cat) man...
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