Tommorrow is my last work day before Christmas and Myself, Rachael & Roy are heading down to Wellington for Christmas. Rachaels family are down there so we are going to crash that party. We are taking our time to get down and staying a few nights in Napier. I don't know anything about Napier so i will update you when i get back. January at camp is stupid busy so updates could be low (kinda like normal) but i will definately try not to be as lazy.
Nothing funny to write as i am not in a funny mood. Check back for the usual stupid humor of Pk another time.
Later...
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Ouch
So I have been back in NZ for a while now and just got word the other week that Immigration NZ has approve me to stay for another year. I am excited about this cause I love the work that i do, and i am meeting some really cool people here.
Went to see U2 in Auckland. It was amazing. I don't think it was as good as the show i saw in Toronto but good all the same.
After U2 we headed up the coast to go fishing again. Great fun, good craic and not that many fish. I did catch the biggest and the most random fish. I think Jerry is getting pissed off when i go cause i kick his butt.. ha ha suck it up buttercup
It wasn't really that sunny but turns out it was.
Went to see U2 in Auckland. It was amazing. I don't think it was as good as the show i saw in Toronto but good all the same.
After U2 we headed up the coast to go fishing again. Great fun, good craic and not that many fish. I did catch the biggest and the most random fish. I think Jerry is getting pissed off when i go cause i kick his butt.. ha ha suck it up buttercup
It wasn't really that sunny but turns out it was.
Christmas in November
This is Julie my bro's wife. I put this up cause i knew she would hate me putting it up!
Ho Ho Ho... Merry Christmas
So while i was home in Ireland my mum decided that we would do Christmas early because i won't be in Ireland for Christmas. So early November the Christmas tree and all the house decorations went up and one evening my parents, grandparents, brother and his wife and my sis all came together to have our Christmas dinner. It rocked for me cause i got to have a proper Christmas dinner that i would have missed but it probably rocked more for them cause I was there (only joking) but the fact that they would have another Christmas dinner on the actual day. Lucky...
Thursday, October 19, 2006
LA For The Day
How much of LA can one person see in one day?
Quite a lot actually.
I arrived into LA and walked out to the exit of the Airport disappointed. One of my favorite TV shows is LAX, not just because of Heather Locklear (but that is at least 70%) but I actually like the show. Thinking about the show and the airport I am not convinced that they actually film there. The airport isn’t that flash (maybe it was just the part I was in) and I did not see Heather. I thought she would have been waiting for me at the arrival gate.
I noticed a few things about LA straight away. I am very poor. Most people there are not. If you do not have a dog you are not cool. Everyone has a dog and if they don’t have the actual dog they have pictures of it. Our driver had a pic of his dog on his dashboard and so did many other cars that I drove past.
I got on a shuttle bus because I wanted to see the sites ASAP. The last time I was scared in a Taxi was in Spain but that was nothing to the horror that this driver put us all through. He was very verbal (and not the words you would say in front of your parents) he was horn happy and I was genuinely scared. He dropped me off at the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre which is the central tourist point on Hollywood Road. It is parallel to Sunset Boulevard and leads you to Rodeo Drive where all the expensive shops are. Outside the Theater is where all the hand prints are in the concrete. There is a vast range of hand prints and many names I have never heard of but I have pics below.
I was planning on sleeping in the Airport but I decided to drop my stuff off at a local hostel as I didn’t want to carry all my stuff around.
I dropped my stuff off and headed back to the Theatre as this was the pick up for my City Tour. This was a cool tour as it took you round all the areas of Hollywood that you would want to see. We went to the Magic Theatre on the top of the hill. The theater was not that exciting for me but it is the best place to view the Hollywood sign.
(Interesting fact about the Hollywood sign. It used to read Hollywoodland as it was used as advertising for a real estate company. But after a dejected actress jumped of the H to end her failed career they decided to review what it was known for)
The tour was great and the guy who did all the talking was fun. He like me cause I was from Belfast. The rest of the people were other Americans and Asians who couldn’t speak English but liked to take pics. We went all around the celebrity’s houses (pics below) drove past the shop that Winona Ryder had sticky fingers in, the park where George Michael became ‘famous’ and the House of Blues club where many musicians start off their careers.
I never did get to see someone famous but I was given an invitation to the unveiling of a star. The stars are all along the sidewalk. You get them awarded for 4 reason: movies, music, radio and television. I was invited Bruce Willis getting his star presented. I didn’t go as I had to be on the plane.
After the tour I was talking to some random guy and got a free ticket to be in the Audience for a live showing of Family Feud (hosted by a guy who was on Seinfeld)
After the show I walked up the town and went into the Guinness Records Museum, Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum, and the Waxwork museum. These were all fun. I then headed back to my hostel and was about to enter and realized that the road had been closed off. They were filming the new Ford commercial and it was a big job. I didn’t realize how many people they needed to film a commercial. It was cool to watch, I had a look in the new car chatted to some random people and headed off to get a sleep before my early rise and hopefully not scary trip to the airport (and yes it was scary and he nearly got me there late. I think it was Samuel Jackson driving. He told me he fought in the war. I told him that I have never fought in a war. The conversation stopped there and I went back to closing my eyes.
I jumped on the plane. Next stop Toronto.
Quite a lot actually.
I arrived into LA and walked out to the exit of the Airport disappointed. One of my favorite TV shows is LAX, not just because of Heather Locklear (but that is at least 70%) but I actually like the show. Thinking about the show and the airport I am not convinced that they actually film there. The airport isn’t that flash (maybe it was just the part I was in) and I did not see Heather. I thought she would have been waiting for me at the arrival gate.
I noticed a few things about LA straight away. I am very poor. Most people there are not. If you do not have a dog you are not cool. Everyone has a dog and if they don’t have the actual dog they have pictures of it. Our driver had a pic of his dog on his dashboard and so did many other cars that I drove past.
I got on a shuttle bus because I wanted to see the sites ASAP. The last time I was scared in a Taxi was in Spain but that was nothing to the horror that this driver put us all through. He was very verbal (and not the words you would say in front of your parents) he was horn happy and I was genuinely scared. He dropped me off at the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre which is the central tourist point on Hollywood Road. It is parallel to Sunset Boulevard and leads you to Rodeo Drive where all the expensive shops are. Outside the Theater is where all the hand prints are in the concrete. There is a vast range of hand prints and many names I have never heard of but I have pics below.
I was planning on sleeping in the Airport but I decided to drop my stuff off at a local hostel as I didn’t want to carry all my stuff around.
I dropped my stuff off and headed back to the Theatre as this was the pick up for my City Tour. This was a cool tour as it took you round all the areas of Hollywood that you would want to see. We went to the Magic Theatre on the top of the hill. The theater was not that exciting for me but it is the best place to view the Hollywood sign.
(Interesting fact about the Hollywood sign. It used to read Hollywoodland as it was used as advertising for a real estate company. But after a dejected actress jumped of the H to end her failed career they decided to review what it was known for)
The tour was great and the guy who did all the talking was fun. He like me cause I was from Belfast. The rest of the people were other Americans and Asians who couldn’t speak English but liked to take pics. We went all around the celebrity’s houses (pics below) drove past the shop that Winona Ryder had sticky fingers in, the park where George Michael became ‘famous’ and the House of Blues club where many musicians start off their careers.
I never did get to see someone famous but I was given an invitation to the unveiling of a star. The stars are all along the sidewalk. You get them awarded for 4 reason: movies, music, radio and television. I was invited Bruce Willis getting his star presented. I didn’t go as I had to be on the plane.
After the tour I was talking to some random guy and got a free ticket to be in the Audience for a live showing of Family Feud (hosted by a guy who was on Seinfeld)
After the show I walked up the town and went into the Guinness Records Museum, Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum, and the Waxwork museum. These were all fun. I then headed back to my hostel and was about to enter and realized that the road had been closed off. They were filming the new Ford commercial and it was a big job. I didn’t realize how many people they needed to film a commercial. It was cool to watch, I had a look in the new car chatted to some random people and headed off to get a sleep before my early rise and hopefully not scary trip to the airport (and yes it was scary and he nearly got me there late. I think it was Samuel Jackson driving. He told me he fought in the war. I told him that I have never fought in a war. The conversation stopped there and I went back to closing my eyes.
I jumped on the plane. Next stop Toronto.
LA..
Charlies Angels
Hannibal Lectre
Chuck Norris
Guinnes World Records fattest man
Beverly HillbilliesLA...
The Joker
Captin Hook
Captin Jack Sparrow
Jesus
Samuel Jacksonhe looked the most real out of them all, he also looked like my Taxi driver
(the one that fought in th war)
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
October Fishing Trip
The other morning myself, Dave and Tania set off at 7am and headed for our lengthy journey in to the middle of nowhere to fish for a few days. The first hour and a half of traveling was fun because it was on regular roads. The last 2 1/2 hours were on a one dirt track road that you average a speed of 35 kms an hour and it is extremely windy. We arrived at the car park where we unloaded and started our hike to get to our boat. The boat was a 1 hour walk into the bush and it was pretty tough. We only found out at the end that the walk was a continual climb and by the time you got to the boat you had climbed 1000ft. (the walk back was definately more enjoyable)
We jumped into the rowing boat and made our way in the rough winds over the lake for a good 3 km row to our cabin. The cabin was cool. Cool in two ways. 1. the cool being that is was good and 2. the other cool that means that it was freezing.
The fishing was really fun. Over the course of the 3 days we caught about 21 trout ranging from the smallest one (that Dave Muckle caught) to the 2 largest that Tania and myself caught. The weather was very random. One evening myself and Dave went out and we got soaked during a down pour. The next day we couldn't see 20 ft in front of us because of a Snow Blizzard, on the last day when we got up everything was frozen with snow on the ground but after an hour or two you would have needed Sun Lotion.
I have added pics below of the trip.
We jumped into the rowing boat and made our way in the rough winds over the lake for a good 3 km row to our cabin. The cabin was cool. Cool in two ways. 1. the cool being that is was good and 2. the other cool that means that it was freezing.
The fishing was really fun. Over the course of the 3 days we caught about 21 trout ranging from the smallest one (that Dave Muckle caught) to the 2 largest that Tania and myself caught. The weather was very random. One evening myself and Dave went out and we got soaked during a down pour. The next day we couldn't see 20 ft in front of us because of a Snow Blizzard, on the last day when we got up everything was frozen with snow on the ground but after an hour or two you would have needed Sun Lotion.
I have added pics below of the trip.
Fishing Trip
Gotta love the boat (we ended up having to use our life jackets as a pillow. I never knew how much your ass could hurt after rowing)
Our lovely little cabin. It sleeps 18 but we were the only ones there.
Wild horses on our trip down. Tania was very excited and MADE David get out and take a pic.
In the middle of the lake there was another island.If you climb up these steps you get to a lake within a lake.
Tania standing at the lake within the lake
Fishing Trip.
My first catch
One of my biggest catches
The end of the trip. Packing up
Tania rowing when the blizzard was starting
Tania's good catch
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