K and I started the day with dim sum at Chinatown for lunch. K had buffet lunch. For some reason, the dim sum sucked, totally different from the experience we had the first time we came here.
After lunch, we tried to drive up to the famous wind farm, supposedly the biggest in the Southern Hemisphere. But on our way up, we were stopped by a truck blocking our way. The driver advised us not to proceed cause the roads uphill were too wet and dangerous due to the rain. So in the end, we u-turned back.
We then drove up to Fielding (a town about 20 minutes from Palmerston North), visited a lame herb farm, a honey center to taste more honey and do other touristy stuff, another town called Sanson and visited the very interesting town of Bulls. We took plenty of pictures of the many interesting signs they have in Bulls! (see Facebook) Basically, they have signs with words ending with "bull" everywhere, like this one here beside the ATM.. = )
In the evening, we went to the central library, sat and read there for about an hour. I read about 3 chapters of Olivia Goldsmith's “First Wives Club”. Quite addictive!
Then we headed to The Plaza mall where Becky works to shop around while waiting for her to knock off. We ended up buying a pink Snoopy tee shirt for me, while K bought 3 tee shirts for $40 at Jay Jays.
At 8pm, Becky got off work, and we headed across the mall for our Korean dinner at De Coree restaurant. Between the 3 of us, we had biminbab rice, ramen, gyoza, seafood pancake and beef jogogi, and 3 types of Korean side dishes: spinach, potatoes and kim chi. Not the best definitely, but acceptable. The guy who waited on us was a tad irritating though. When I asked him what was in their ramen noodles dish, cause the menu just said "ramen", he actually replied: "I don't know, i'm not the chef." I felt like kicking him. What kind of rude answer is that?? Sigh..
We reached home around 9plus, and everyone turned in early. K and I had another cold night in our sofa bed. Tonight is colder than the night before.. Burrrrr....
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