APRIL.

This post will account for the entire month of April. Ready:

It rained. A lot. Guess the old saying of April showers is true even in New Zealand. Except for the ‘brings May flowers’ part because all it brought was more rain. I think I forgot how much it rains in New Zealand, but I’m quickly remembering. 

Oh yeah, and Easter. It didn’t really happen this year either. Sam and I had work (shocker). We’ve gotten used to not celebrating holidays on their actual date. We usually postpone it and celebrate it ourselves whenever we have a day off together. I’m pretty sure we ended up celebrating Christmas a week into January, but it works for us. We planned to go out to dinner at Mecca for it like we did for New Years Eve, but then our American friend Elyse invited us to dinner with her parents who were visiting. Dinner at Mecca by ourselves which we’ve done before or free dinner with actual people at a new restaurant in Ponsonby? It was a toss up but we went with the latter. It was really nice meeting them and talking to Americans again. It was even nice just to be around a family, even if it wasn’t mine or Sam’s. Also, they had the most amazing gnocchi I’ve ever had in my life. I know you’re supposed to be polite at dinner and converse and eat slowly, but I devoured it. 

Later that night, it got me thinking about my own family and how I’ll be back home soon in the states and out of Auckland. Then I realized something that made me really sad for the moment: What if I never get to have that gnocchi again for the rest of my life?! And that completes this segment on “Deep Thoughts by Nicole Riverso.”