Day 302 - Places to Wait

Today I went to the Japanese Embassy in Wellington for what, I suppose is their version of Eiga Sai, where they show one Japanese movie every last Tuesday and Thursday of each month. The movie I saw was Swing Girls, and it started at 6:30pm. It ended around 8:30pm, which meant that I missed the last bus I needed to take. My sister and her fiance E were nice enough to pick me up, and I sat on this bench as I waited for them. BTW, it was only around 9pm, but the area was already a ghost town. My sister tells me that's really normal.

Day 301 - Chocolate and Cream Cheese

So we loved the cream cheese icing of the red velvet cupcakes so much, but the red velvet cupcake itself is too difficult to make. So my sister made normal chocolate cake instead, and just put the cream cheese icing on it. The idea to put candy sprinkles on it was mine. Because I just love candy sprinkles. They're delicious, and they're very pretty.

Day 300 - Something You Don't See Everyday

Pandas and this mascot in Civic Square in Wellington CBD. There was an event promoting tourism in China and I guess that means pandas walking around. It was all very nice, there were food booths selling dumplings and everything.

Day 299 - Dairy

I don't know why, but they call convenient stores "Dairy" here. Anyway, this is the one across the bus stop nearest my sister's house. Although I wait for the bus often, I've only been inside it once. I bought a cookie. :)

Day 298 - Photo Subject

One of the best uses for pets, I have found, is that they are neutral topics of conversation, or that no one will think too much about your being anti-social when you're playing with them, and that they're the easiest to convince to be a subject for your photos. I don't mean that they're easy to take a photo of, but at least when you take photos of them sleeping and post it on the internet, you're not a bad person for doing so, and they're not going to complain about it. ;)

So this is Gianni, my sister's parents-in-law's dog. He's very nice and easy to take care of. He's trained and everything. Also, very cute, as you can see.