Eatin' in Dunedin

Our favorite restaurant/bar/cinema/church
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Question: Where do you go when an entire country shuts down for 3 days?  Answer: A University town!  Because a university town never closes.  It just charges an additional 15%. Actually, first you stop off at the tourist sights that are on the way there, like the seal colony at Shag point, and the "world famous" Moereki boulders, which are kind of like giant Easter eggs (made out of rock) and which came highly recommended to us by the FedEx courier at the Cookie Time factory.  Then you check into your hotel room, which you are lucky to have because the rest of the hotel (and several surrounding hotels) are all full of high school basketball teams.  Then, if you're anything like us, you eat a big meal and take a nap.

Birthday Scrabble
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And you become good friends with the local video store.

We got to celebrate Lee's birthday in style, a jam-packed 3 days of celebration full of eating, cheesy movies, food, beer, Dora the Explorer, scrabble, chocolate, and SingStar (if you don't know, don't ask).  When we weren't eating or singing (which was rare), we were touring the Cadbury factory and the Speights brewery, spying on penguins, and climbing up and down Baldwin street, the steepest street in the world, where we met our good friend the slaughterer who runs up and down that street 30 times every day (see photos for guy with amazing legs). So what was Lee's favorite part of her birthday adventure?  I'd have to guess the Mousehead balloons/masks, although I hope she'd say it was that she got to spend it with her sis.  As Tina says, she's simply the best.  And she certainly knows how to party.