Auckland

The second day we were in NZ we went to downtown Auckland to walk around and eat dinner and stuff. I think that place is my new favorite city!! Its super clean, really shiny and all lit up. There is barely any gum stuck to the ground and I have no idea how they keep all the glass so nice. There are a bunch of cool colored lights so its not just white lights and glass and steel. There are lights of all different colors everywhere. It’s all really modern and there’s a lot of glass everywhere. Also, there are fountains and statues everywhere. All the restaurants are all really nice so we kinda had trouble finding one that wasn’t way to fancy for us. We ended up getting sushi at the ferry terminal (it was good!). There was also a crazy good gelato place so that just made it more awesome. Compared to LA, where we had been a few days earlier, it was really clean and nice. Nothing against LA, that’s still my second favorite city (so far) but Auckland is just sooo clean and shiny (I love shiny things)!!! I thought it was just because it was night time but it’s still clean and shiny during the day. Like LA, Auckland is really, really sprawled, but while LA is just houses and streets everywhere Auckland is so spread out that you can be in a town and see sheep and cows on a nice grassy hill if you drive for like two minutes. Its really cool, but I still like the center of Auckland better. Grass isn’t shiny and neither are cows.

 Also, its really funny because there are people standing outside all the restaurants who sorta politely force a menu upon you and nicely shove you inside when you are walking by. They do that a lot here. It actually works sometimes! We went to a little complex of restaurants intending to go to one, but the one right next to it had this guy come out and hand us menus and stuff then he just started talking about how awesome the food was at his restaurant and eventually we just went inside. Turns out he had talked up the food a bit but it was still really good. People here are smart like that, practical I guess its cool, and really different from the US.

~MiaIsCoolAndYouKnowIt J