Rainy Days

So I am trying to do better with my blog, I figure 4 days or so isn't to bad. Well, a cold spell has hit NZ, which means it has been cold and rainy in Auckland for the past couple of days. This is okay, because it means that the rain here is in fact snow up on the volcano, WHICH I just found out, the mountain I have been boarding on for the past 2 and a half months is also known to some of you maybe as Mordor from Lord of the Rings. Ya Awesome. Speaking of Mordor, I am going down there this thursday for a week and a half so I will be a little quite for a while if anyone is trying to reach me. I will be avoiding the great eye of Sauron while I cross the volcanic plains of Mordor. It is pretty funny though because I watched a clip or two of Mordor again once I learned that, and I was like I know that exact location. So this weekend I am going to go and re-enact the Lord of the Rings as a one man show only taking place in Mordor. It should amusing. Well now I suppose I should catch you up on what I've been doing.

I left on Thursday. A night where not muched happened. I cooked stir fry for dinner, and that was about it. Friday was also a pretty average day. Yannik and I went for a walk around Mt. Mangere, and I was able to get him to go all the way to the top with me this time. I did this by always staying 20 feet in front of him so he couldn't really turn around and leave. (maybe not ideal, but it worked) We had a delicious stuffed squid dinner, and afterwards the family and I all went down to Mission Bay for ice cream. I think I have decided that Mission Bay is definitely one of my favorite places in town. Its pretty both at day and night. Anyways, Saturday I took a trip downtown trying to find a barber. I am determined to find a barber that does face shaves with a cutthroat razor (although I am a little more hesitant now that I learned they are called "cutthroats") However the ones I have found are about $40 for a shave and then 15 for a hair cut. Also known that were downtown were open unfortunately. Yet I did swing by the book store, and it was there I discovered that Ohakune and Mt. Reuhapu was Mordor, so definitely not all a waste. During the afternoon, I have started to watch Entourage which is a HBO series. So I tucked myself under the covers and watched some of that. Roughly around 7 I headed over to a friends house for a BBQ and some drinks. You see on Saturday here in NZ there was "the Fight of the Century" apparently. Two heavyweight fighters, David Tua (Somoan, and 37 who used to be a major player internationally) and Shane Cameron (Kiwi, and 32 who was a young and upcoming fighter) had a fight. Here it was a huge deal. So I went to this get together and then we were all going to go to the local sportsbar to watch the fight. However when we arrived the line was around the block and they came out and announced they were at capacity. So we went to the other bar in town, but they too were packed. We had to drive into city central to be able to watch it. We had a great time, there were two fights before the main event. The main event however only lasted 6 seconds into the second round. Tua laid into this guy. It was pretty awesome to watch. The dude was over the hill people were saying, but he had lost like 50 kg to do the fight and just a day or two before the fight he had lost his Aunt back in the Earthquakes in Samoa. So they did the Samoa national anthem and things before the fight which was cool, and then he just destroyed Cameron. It quick, but great to watch. So that was my Saturday evening. On sunday I laid around and read a bunch of "A brief history of time" by Steven Hawkings, which is an awesome read. Although I don't know if everyone would say that, but it appeals to the mathematician in me. So anyways I really enjoyed it and read a third of it yesterday. That evening all of Leighs nephews and neices came over and we had a big dinner. And today, I have simply had to clean up from the aftershock of that dinner. Well back to cleaning. Talk to you guys soon.

Wes