The past few days have been relatively whirlwindish.
The plus side is that when people ask me what I did over the weekend, I’ll have a good answer.
The downside is that I’ve had to get a blog to write about it.
My partners sisters are staying with us at the moment, so we’ve been tourists over the last few days which doesn’t normally happen and it’s been fascinating to go to places and watch how the ‘youth’ interact with one another.
Just writing that sentence makes me feel old.
Rainbow’s End.
I remember Rainbow’s End as a mecca of theme park amazingness. During story time at primary school, I would write about how I had visited and been on the bumper boats and roller coaster. Even though I never had.
Now, Rainbows End is a curious place, where the time goes really quickly because you’re constantly standing in line. It was in one of these lines where I was reminded the danger of having large roving death squads of tweens. In the line for the fear fall (that’s right, I went twice), there were a group of four Polynesian kids trying to get the attention of a group of Fijian Indian girls in front of them.
These are some outtakes:
“Hey you! Girls!”
“Yeah?”
“Have youse got boyfriends?”
“Yeah, my boyfriend’s name is Liam”
“Haha, shame, Liam doesn’t like you”
“Then why is he txting me right now?”
Ouch. Upon being shot down:
“Shame, I don’t like Indian girls anyway, because they smell like curry”
I’m yet to find an Indian that smells like curry, and even if I did I think that’d make them much more awesome, because curry itself is quite appealing.
I also witnessed a Lolly Scramble. There is nothing quite as frightening as the mind-control exhibited by lollies. The clowns had buckets of lollies and got the kids chanting the magic word ‘lollies, lollies!’ Then the lollies were thrown into the air, and wee tykes started scrabbling on the concrete, until all the lollies were accounted for. The winners were mostly big children and those kids that are willing to eat things off the ground. Heh, I think that’s a good metaphor for life.
Small things of interest – the Mad Butcher supporting the SPCA.
That pesky problem for the SPCA about where to put the old animals is finally settled.
And, also I thought this was quite funny from the Auckland Zoo because I don’t hear much about the rainforest on Newstalk ZB.
And finally, zoo has bunnies.
