Day Out With The Grandparents

Yesterday we got to spend the day with Mary's grandpa and his wife. They took us first to a really cool aquarium! There were lots of penguins and some ginormous sting rays! We took a bunch of pictures, but due to technical difficulties (i.e. I brought the wrong cord) it'll be a while before we can put them up. :(

After that, they took us out to lunch at a nice place where we got to try some fish and chips and some spaghetti with prawns (which is what they call shrimp). It was delicious! We went back to their house after lunch to hang out for a little while. They like to have hot drinks after their meals here, so they made us some Milo, which is like hot cocoa for them. We see lots of different birds around, and we saw one that they call a parakeet, but it looks just like a parrot with lots of bright colors, but smaller. We've also seen lots of sheep and pet pigs. Mary's uncle was telling us about how he goes hunting for big ol boars and he showed us some of the heads he had mounted- they were huge! And nasty looking! haha

Anyway, To finish off the day, we went to a little town called Piha and went to a really cool beach. We found a few starfish and John plucked a huge one off of a rock! Don't worry, we returned it to it's home after we finished feeling it and taking pictures. Lol In New Zealand it's currently winter time so there weren't too many beach goers. Apparently it's a really good surfing beach though, so there were quite a few devoted fellows out trying to catch some good waves. At the beach, there's a big rock that you can hike up. When we were there the sun was just about to set so it was really pretty! All in all it was a really fun day and were tuckered out by he end!