Oh, and just to add, I PASSED MY NCEA LV1 EXAMS (*coughOWLScough*)! With Merit, baybeh! <3

Now I'm a... middly NEWT student? *hee*

Day one

Day one in Auckland? We flew up, with a very amusing flight crew on our plane. I loved the safety briefing, and I actually listened to it! ("And please make sure your seatbelt is fastened tightly around your neck - I mean hips.")

Dad met us at the airport, and we drove back to our hotel. It was kind of funny, because there were pretty much no rooms left at the hotel and I joked about maybe having to sleep in a manger (HARHARHAR), but we got a single room.

... Which we had to squeeze another bed into. *phail*

I got the extra bed, since Jemma wanted the couch! Little did she know how bloody uncomfortable that couch was!

We just lazed around and checked out the hotel for the rest of the afternoon. I watched Bridget Jones' Diary in the evening for the first time (Which is *really funny* by the way, despite all the swearing and carrying on) and enjoyed it. It reminded me of the Georgia Nicolson books, except with worse language.

Mum and Dad made me stay up late, because they wanted to finish watching the tennis and it just kept going on and on and on and on. I said, "Cannai go to sleep? Pleeeeeaaaaaaaasee?" and the parents said, "Sure."

I thought that meant that they'd turn off the TV, but no such luck? They told me to ignore it. Yeah, right.

Uneventful sleep followed; mostly because it was SOOOO hot, and the fan sounded like a helicopter. Rawr.

Day two

Went out for morning tea and I had scrambled eggs on toast. :3

Because Jemma had been eating the little packets of sugar in the hotel (???), we were all out, and so she kept trying to smuggle packets from the cafe. Unsuccessfully.

After that, we went to our friend Robbie's new house (he just moved up to the Uck from Welly) and stayed for lunch. Yummy; Nicky (Robbie's wife-thing)'s grandmother was over and she had made quiche. It was really good! And they had this doggy called Riley, who was ADORABLE. He was really old, and pure black, so he would lie down in the sun and get really hot, but not be able to get up off the ground! So we had to spray him with the hose to cool him off~

And then we got to go to the ZOO! *excited*

It was so fun! We saw the kiwis first; so cute! One was pacing up and down, right beside the glass! Jemma wouldn't let me stay to look for the birds in the display (she hates zoos), and we went right to the *otters*.

Jemma, Mum and Dad were at the otters before me, cause I was lagging behind and reading all the information about the animals (I do that. xD), but apparently when they were there, no otters were out. Suddenly, a zoo keeper came by and called out, and they all came rushing out.

Anyway, as I came up to the otters, I squealed when I saw them (They are sooo cute!) and they all turned around, saw me, and rushed right over to me! They all gathered around where I was standing, peering over the fence and they all sat up and started squealing!

One lady got really excited ("They must think she's their MOTHER!" "It's because she's wearing cat ears!" "Ohh, what a perfect picture!").

I am an OTTER MOTHER. I have OTTER CHILDREN. <3333

The rest of the zoo was pretty awesome.

My favourites were the otters, hippo (It was underneath the water and kept trying to snap at these ducks sitting on the top of the water by coming up at them from underneath! xD!), cotton-top tamarin monkeys (SO CUTE! I want one), the flying foxes and the sealions.

I wanted to go back again tomorrow, but Dad said no.

N'aww...

I liked being an otter mother.

Day three

Woke up all sore, because Jemma had made me try out the couch bed. It was only slightly more comfortable than a rock. Ouch.

Got up to go to morning tea with Mum's friend, Bubbly (Don't ask). Nothing exciting happened here. Though me and Jemma did play a rather interesting few rounds of 20 questions ("You can't use LIGER! That's not even an animal!" (Jemma)). ^___^u

After that we went shopping! I got a t-shirt and a book.

I obviously picked the wrong parent to go with (Dad), as Jemma got three tops, a pair of shorts and a handbag. xDDD

My t-shirt was really cool though, and all her stuff was from Supre *puke*.

My book, Extras, is the 4th in a trilogy by Scott Westerfeld (All you Midnighters nuts have to read these books!) and it's TOTALLY AWESOME.

Very icy, bubbly-making, and a total eye-kicker (You'll understand when you read 'em). I RECOMMEND IT. FABULOUS BOOKS. Go read Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld. Please. <3

Looked around for crimson hair dye... and failed. If anybody knows where I could get wash-out hair dye that is CRIMSON coloured (Not red, you stupid saleslady!), then I'd appreciate you telling me where to finds eet.

After shopping, we went to meet up with some friends and we scaled the Sky Tower! It was soooo tall. I had a huge headache while I was up there the whole time, so it kind of ruined it for me, but it was still pretty awesome.

I really felt like the whole thing was swaying underneath my feet the whole time, which kind of freaked me out. We saw a couple of people do that big freefall off of it. Brave people, them. I could never have done it! :0

I went to the HUGE Borders afterwards (IWANTIWANTIWANT), gawked/drooled over their MANY shelves of manga and started to hungrily read the Ouran High School Host Club manga. I wants it! Mum ended up buying me the 5th Cardcaptor Sakura book (YES! I HAVES THEM ALLLLLLLLL!!!) and the 2nd Angelic Layer book (YESYESYES! *pumps fist*)!

Then, off to some more friend's house, where we watched Tenacious D, before having a rocking pool party sort of thing. We had this HUGE pool fight against the guys (Unwise; 4 girls vrs 7 boys = didn't really work out for us), but the guys had no problem with just picking us up and hurling us in. We kind of got caned. It was fun though!

Ended up going to bed at one in the morning and woke up to Stephanie's cat, Cola, settling down on me. This made me too hot, and woke me up at the same time. Darn.

Day four

Uhh, I'm getting so tired of typing.

Woke up. Had breakfast.

Ended up watching this completely retarded children's TV show, called Captain Kangaroo (Heard of it?). This guy gets SOOOO many things WRONG, I swear! It was really funny. We were watching the episode called 'Animal Alphabet' and he said (AND I QUOTE), "D is for Deer, which hunts for food in the forest."

Umm, hunts?

I got this mental image of a deer stalking an ivy plant and cracked up laughing. xD!

He also said, "P is for the corpulent pig," Corpulent? How many 5 year olds are going to know THAT word? o____O;;

And he also pronounced SLOTH, as 'Sloath'. WTH, Captain Kangaroo? xD

We ended up wasting half the day watching it. Which Steph's Mum thought was hilarious.

Next we went to the TEDDY BEAR FACTORY! Where my panda-toy, Zero, came to life. He's going to be my panda for the cosplay picnic. I don't care if he's not purple. *hugs panda*

And we had Subway for lunch... yada yada yada. *tired*

We made cookies?

Umm, had dinner.

Caught a plane home...

Um, here we are.

The last bits weren't too exciting. But most of it was! I loved my trip to the Uck-y land. Hee. I'd do it again! But maybe not until later...

Next; COSPLAY! *rushes off to Spotlight* I have LOTS to do! >____<

- Caddles

P.S - I call it the Uck, because of Auckland and also because it's a bit of an inside PotterCast joke. *nerd* Hahaha. <333