Ally & Suzy's Blog

The booby prize!

The start of this week was mainly uneventful, apart from Tuesday evening when we went to a pub quiz in a local Irish bar called ‘The Bog’ in Parnell. Symon came along too and we had a great laugh, especially because we came last place, not just by a little bit as well! Our handicap, I told the bartender, was that we were Scottish! – I don’t know whether he felt sorry for us or what, but he gave us a booby prize of a Cocktail Jug (complete with a cocktail of my choice) to drink so we didn’t feel so bad about loosing so badly! The bartender was a nice bloke who we got chatting away to after the quiz and he let me know about another recruitment agency I should try, so that was nice!

On Friday, Symon invited us out to his ‘local’ pub, yep, you guessed it, another Irish bar near Eden Park. Suzy was getting tired before the night had started, so Symon had to twist her arm, but even she enjoyed herself when she got out! The bar was called Clare’s Bar, on Dominion Road and many of Symon’s friends and work colleagues were there. There was an band (made up of an Irishman, an Englishman, oh and a Maori too!). They were pretty good and the singer in the band (who also works at Symon’s work – Air New Zealand) cracked a few funny

Me overlooking the Museum from the Auckland Domain

jokes along the way. We headed home around midnight but didn’t manage to get to sleep till around three am for some reason, perhaps just our heads buzzing from the loud music!

On Saturday we didn’t feel up to much as we were both tired, but as it was such a beautiful day – T-shirt weather, I managed to coax Suzy out of the house after lunch. We went up Parnell Rise which is pretty steep (Suzy was huffing and puffing by the top!!), but we managed to get to the Auckland Domain which was nice. I showed Suzy the duck pond and we walked through the Domain and down to Lovers Lane, which comes out near the bottom of Parnell rise, which is where we started our walk. It’s a good circular route for taking the little tike out in the buggy in seven months time!

I’ve put more photos in the Gallery as usual, so click on the link to your left to view that if you haven’t had a chance yet and we will have another update for you next week, hopefully with some job related updates too (fingers crossed!).

On Sunday we went out to the Dove Myer Robinson Park which is up in the corner of Parnell. It has a nice rose garden (which will look better in the summer!). It’s also got a small bay at the bottom called Judges Bay. I’ve put some photos in the Gallery so check them out!