The game was incredible. Professional rugby is definitely something to behold. I think it's much more graceful than football in the states. The only thing was that the game itself wasn't very competitive so that took some of the fun out of it. The All Blacks destroyed the Fiji team, but I heard that was to be expected. The match was just an exhibition to raise money for Christchurch, I think.
Saturday morning we got a rental car and decided to explore the Dunedin area. This was a three day rental so it was going to be a sweet weekend. But before we could leave, a friend from school and I had to get to the Willamette lunch that was happening at the Speight's Alehouse. A professor from our school was in town and had offered to take us all out to lunch with university money, something none of us would argue with. I had a $22 steak and $7 sorbet, all paid for by my tuition money. It was the most delicious free lunch ever. I was told, however, that there couldn't be alcohol on the same bill, so free beer on Willamette was out of the question (something that deeply saddened me). I'm still waiting for Willamette to buy me a beer. After all it's put me through and done to me, I think it's the least it could do.
So after lunch we headed out to the Otago Peninsula. The place is beautiful. My friend had his camera with him, so I downloaded these pictures off of facebook to show you guys.
Here's our car, it's the one with the FS license plate. And our crew standing in front of it waving like idiots.
Next we went to a place called the chasm and another called Lover's leap. These were both basically huge cliffsides, but each one was amazing. I think there are some pictures of these places as well.
These places were pretty awesome.
That's all we had time for on saturday because we had to get to a birthday party in the basement of a bar. There was some kind of bar tab deposit that someone put down so all drinks were only $3 until 9, then $4 until 11 or something. It was a strangely quiet night around Dunedin, but I'm pretty sure everyone there had a fairly decent time.
The next day we hit up Tunnel beach and the Albatross museum. But honestly, it was the driving around the scenic peninsula that made it cool. There's a few pictures of that too.
The craziest thing though, is that sunday morning it started raining and by the time we got back into town, the streets of Dunedin were blanketed with about an inch and a half of snow. By night time, kiwis were talking about having no school in the morning. This place deals with snow just about as well as Portland does - not very well at all. Nobody knows how to drive. Today, I still had class (unfortunately), but I went and withdrew some money to move to my NZ account I found the bank closed. The post office too! Also I was hoping to buy a sandwich here on campus because I didn't make a lunch for myself today and I find out the sandwich shop is closed too! These kiwis are a bunch of pussies that don't know how to deal with snow. The upside, though, is that the liquor store will be open. The people that run the place are from the neighborhood and the people that shop there are as well. I heard that X-Men Origins is on TV tonight, so I will for sure have something to do somewhere warm tonight.
Hope the addition of sweet pics, courtesy of my Texan friend (first one ever I think) allow you to appreciate my babbles a little more. Until next time...
Cheers! (lol)
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