Tasty

I believe I quote the great Johnny Drama from Entourage when I say "VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" So you guys know those soft pretzels I was trying to make at the end of my last post. Well ya. THEY"RE AWESOME! A complete success if I do say so myself. I feel like I am at a baseball game or themepark eating them. Its so great. I never thought I would have the super power of being able to summon forth wonderfully golden brown tasty soft and salted pretzels with the flick of my fingers. Dad you should be proud of your son. I have conquerored the German Soft Pretzel. Not to mention there is nothing like a warm Pretzel to suddenly appear really hot in the eyes of german au pairs.

Anyways so needless to say on Friday I made a batch of Pretzels which was highly successful. That evening I met up with a bunch of people in the city. About 5 of us met at a bar to listen to two bands playing that night. The main group was pretty cool. Sort of a little "Ani Defranco"ish. After the the bands finished another group of about 10 people came out to join us. We decided to go downtown, and ended up going clubbing. We ended up at a place called the car park and me and several people danced the night away. That night I ended sleeping on the floor of Monica's in Point Chevieler. This is because for some extremely annoying reason, the last bus for Onehunga leaves at 11. So if I want to go out on the town I pretty much have to crash on a floor. Well the next morning I woke up, and it was spectacular out. Bird was staying at Monica's as well while until his job in the south Island begins (he finally found one) We sat around outside and enjoyed the weather for a little while till I decided I should get home. For some reason, I thought it would be interesting to see what it was like to walk all the way home. Two and a half hours later, I wasn't necessarily still thinking it was such a good idea. But it was a beautiful day and so the walk wasn't too bad. (Its about the same distance from downtown to home as well, 2 and a half hours).

After I returned home, I passed out and then woke up to make another batch of pretzels (simply to put the recipe in my head). Then I head to the Kingslander in Kingsland and met up with the same group from the night before and watched the Australia vs. New Zealand Rugby game. We of course crushed Australia as we always do in Rugby. Then most people rolled out but myself and two other guys. So we went to the central city and as soon as we got out of the cab I ran into two other of my nanny friends. (it was pretty funny) so we then went clubbing again for the evening. This time I was able to catch a nightrider bus home for the evening. (Apparently, due to my frustration yesterday I had done some research, and there are nightrider buses that go from downtown back to Onehunga at 1:30 and 3:10 in the morning on Friday and Saturday nights so thats good).

Anyways, this morning I woke up at noon (latest I've slept in since I was here). Then I took a shower and headed One Tree Hill to meet up with the group. We spent the day lazing around in Cornwall Park (the large park that One Tree Hill is a part of) At around 5 we all rolled over to Kingsland and gorged ourselves on Chinese food. I definitely got my quota of meat in for the week. Afterwards just to fill in the cracks we picked up a crate of ice cream and hit that.

And now, finally, I am back at home trying to ignore my fear of the Television which is playing "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (At some point I will have to get over my fear of horror movies (even cheap, bad, teen horror movies)). I sit here while I wait for my dough to rise. This time I am making bagels for tomorrow morning. I'll tell you how it goes.

Wes