It was a sunny day, but we were still very tired,
suffered from lack of sleep or jet lag (perhaps). We had the breakfast and
prepared to go out to have some outdoor activities, yet were left at home when
my husband and father-in-law went out to grab our rented car for our great Kiwi
road trip. Ended up we had a few hours to rest at home. It was about 2pm then
only we stepped out of the house to begin touring around the Auckland.
We went to an apple farm nearby and
with a person paid for only 3 dollars, we can pick, taste and try as many
apples as possible to get 1 kg of apples home. It was my first experience of
picking the apples. From Royal Fuji apples, to Pacific Roses, we spent almost 2
hours there to make sure we try every single apple tree. It was awesome! You
never how wasteful we were for the first time, we threw the whole apple after a
bite, because you can’t eat the whole apple while there is still many waiting
for you to try! LOL.
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| Many many apples! |
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| We really had fun picking and tasting the apples! |
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| Oh apples, i miss how fresh, juicy and crunchy they were. |
On our way back, we noticed that many trees start turning
color into yellow and brown. It is a sign of Autumn (though it was already end
of Autumn, the Auckland’s
weather was much warmer than other part of NZ thus color changing only happen
when the temperature was lower in these few days). We were so excited as this
was the first time we spotted so colorful trees in our life (and we didn’t
expect there is plenty and much pretty to see in South
Island).
We stopped by the Auckland’s
quay street and her harbour side. It was about 4.30PM and many were start going
home after work. We had the Gelato in one of the coffee shop and had some chit
chats. It was quite fun to hear my husband’s family to share their old stories,
especially about those who once as a kid and now an adult.
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| Auckland harbor side, people were queue up for ferry ride |
So today my mom-in-law showed off her ultimate chef skill
to the family, she prepared most dishes for dinner which included a grilled
salmon, her famous chicken rice etc. Annie contributed to the steak and my
husband did the sushi. It was also coincidence that my mom-in-law’s 50 birthday
is on tomorrow, so we had early birthday celebration together with Annie, who
brought her own cake to pre-celebrate the birthday before her parents gone for
vacation with us.
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| Annie and her bf - Ameya, and us together with the foods. |
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| A group photo of both families in. |
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| Birthday girls! |
As usual, the jet lag still, we had early rest tonight.
It was about time to gear up for our great Kiwi road trip tomorrow!
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