Flight of the Chonchords Music Video
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Flight of the Chonchords Music Video
Oh boy, don’t wet you pants, New Zealand comedians are rulin’! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLJ5a6aJOb8&hl=en&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6]
Saturday with the Jacks
The best beach afternoon ever!……until Louie humped a baby playing in the sand, that was just plain embarrassing.
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We went to a super cool craft fair in Browns Bay this morning and look what Ethan found! His very own preserved puffer fish. It is his prize possession and is hung in his window where Louie has no hope of getting it. |
Is this not the BEST picture ever? and how cute is our dog really?
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Life with Ethan
The BEST place for play-do is outside! It took me 3 years to learn this lesson for some reason?!? Louie likes to snuggle in bed – with anyone who will have him. This is called ‘Happy Boy Breakfast’ and Ethan gets it on mornings when …
Randomness
I don’t normally post stuff like this but I love this one, come on kids of the 80’s you know what I’m talking about….
THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking 25 miles to school every morning … uphill BOTH ways.yadda, yadda, yadda, and I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they’ve got it! But now that I’m over the ripe old age of 30, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of today. You’ve got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today don’t know how good you’ve got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it upourselves, in the card catalog!! There was no email!! We had toactually write somebody a letter… .with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! There were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ’d usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! We didn’t have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that’s it! And we didn’t have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school , your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn’t know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn’t have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like ‘Space Invaders’ and ‘asteroids.’ Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever!And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there was no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front o f you and you couldn’t see, you were just screwed! Sure, we had cable television, but back then that were only like 15 channels and there was no on screen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning! Do you hear what I’m saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!
And we didn’t have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire…. imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.That’s exactly what I’m talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You’re spoiled.You guys wouldn’t have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
Regards,The over 30 Crowd
Torbay Kindy Bike-athon
This was such a great fundraiser as it involved no chocolate or lollies and the students actually had to do something for their sponsorship $$!
Happy Birthday!
I had such a great day thanks to my wonderful boys and family, thanks so much everyone, I love you all!
Tonga – Day 6
Much like our first day, our final day in Tonga started in the dark, check in for our 45min flight from Ha’apai to Tongatapu was at 6.30am. All was going well until we got the causeway. As I mentioned earlier, it is barely above sea level and the night before a large swell had hit and the one lane causeway was strewn with rocks and boulders. There was already a truck stuck in the middle so the path had to be cleared by hand by those wanting to get to the other side.
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On the road again! This was a little stressful as we were due to check-in in a matter of minutes, but we made it on time. |
So we made it to the main island, the flight was sweet and after chatting with some other travellers who also had a 12 hour layover we decided to split a rental van for the day and explore the island. A taxi driver at the domestic terminal / small hut (jk!) said he would drive us to Avis in Nuku’alofa, though he did tell us that they would be very expensive and he ‘had a friend’ who would rent us a car. After driving about 30min we were getting a bit uneasy about ‘Hammer’s’ friend and where exactly we would have to go to pick up our rental, when Hammer simply pulled over jumped out and said we could take his taxi for the day for a measly 80 Pa’anga and he would see us back at the airport before our plane departed! We were all stunned – no insurance, paperwork, deposit????? No, Hammer waved us off at said have a good day, sweet!
We had breakfast and set off to explore Tongatapu;
After brekkie at Friends Cafe we did some laps at the Saturday morning market in Nuku’alofa, I think the locals were a tad confused by the Palangi’s who had obviously kidnapped Hammer and were driving his taxi all over town! Our next stop was the blowholes (south-west side of the Island). They were amazing, as far as the eye could see the coast was jagged and consisted of shallow tidal pools that exploded when the waves rolled in;
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The blowholes were a little too much dangerous temptation for Ethan who was dying to get down into the pools to explore, but they were very sharp volcanic rock so we had to be careful. |
Next we drove north to the Christianity Landing place and Ha’atafu Beach where we swam and Ethan snorkled for the first time!!!! The amazement on his little face as he saw the underwater world that he loves so much for the first time was the best part of the whole holiday for Dave and I. He simply could not believe his eyes as he saw ‘Dorys’, butterfly fish, goatfish and the elusive ‘striped fish’ swimming around his toes. Honestly, swimming anywhere in Tonga is akin to swimming in a tropical fish tank, it’s mesmerizing.
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After we had cooled off we headed to the bat sanctuary. It took us ages to find it it as we were looking for a sign that said ‘Bat Sanctuary’, after driving back and forth and asking 2 lots of people, we finally saw the bats. They were simply hanging in two trees in someone’s front yard! It doesn’t sound very funny but it was quite hilarious;
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Ethan loved the bats, it peaked his interest so much we thought for a split-second that bats might be a challenge to fish and sharks!……but it was all a dream…
After lunch and accidentally touring the very sad Nuku’alofa shanty town where people live on top of the rubbish dump, which coincidentally is on top of the mangrove estuary, we made it to the 300 year old stone burial tomb and pyramid for a former Tongan king, it was closed! Gutted, but we were able to snap some pics over the fence;
We then found our way in Hammer’s Bongo Friendee Taxi to Ha’Amonga ‘A Maui, the ancient stone trilithon, this was super cool;
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That was the end of the main tourist spots, we toured around for a bit longer and found some gorgeous spots, but the day was just about over and it was so nice to fill in a layover with some seriously good sight-seeing!
Upon arrival and check in at Fu’amotu airport we had another stroke of good luck, the new Tongan king flew in on the Air NZ plane we were leaving on so we were fortunate enough to witness the whole royal she-bang! Brass band, super nanny king-mobile and police escort, plus the king-to-be himself perusing his peeps! It was so cool, how many Kings do you get to see in you life?
Tonga was amazing, we all want to live there, and none of us wanted to leave, Ethan was meant to be a feral little island palangi, he was so at home there. It is a place to which we would definitely return.
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| These are some random shots; | Little strip-mall found everywhere |
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I have never seen SO many churches in such a small area; we called this one the rainbow church and it had so much more spirituality than the concrete block LDS (Mormon) churches that were every 5km or so. |
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Tonga – Day 5
Though we weren’t at the beach, Friday was one of the most special days of the trip. Two of the cooks at the resort, Betsy and Latu told us about how Ha’apai would be grinding to a halt on Friday as it was Sports Day …