Busy Busy Saturday

      Saturday (March 5th) was a crazy busy day. I cycled down the shore and took the ferry over to the CBD. Then I cycled to swim squad. I had given my friend Fiona my swim stuff the night before so when I got there we went for a quick run and then we did swim squad. I sure have a lot of work to do on my pull. We were doing a set where you count how many times you stroked between two buoys. Everyone else had numbers that were about half of what I have showing that while I move my arms with good technique I don't move a lot of water with them.

Funny Coffee Cup from
Shakey Isles

Fu    After the swim Bevan picked me and my bike up. We had brunch in St. Hellier's. It was an alright meal. I find that the cafes in the bays are often not as nice as the ones on the shore. They seem to charge the same price but not produce the same quality of food. So after our semi disappointing brunch we headed to Hyper Ride. Hyper Ride is a shop that sells discounted snow board/skate board/surf board stuff. Bevan's birthday is next week and he needed to go try on some things so his parents knew what to get him.
     After Hyper Ride we raced back into the city to go to the Coffee Festival. It was in Shed 10 on the water front. The festival had a very hipster feel to it. There were tons of different coffee roasters most of which I had never heard of before. We got free coffee from one called Shaky Isles. They have hilarious coffee cups and packaging. We also got free coffee from another place called Flight something. It wasn't great. We tried coffee from Spaceman but I didn't like it so I didn't get a full coffee. We also tried the most delicious hot chocolate. It was just like melted chocolate. It reminded me of the Bernard Calibu hot chocolate I used to get in Calgary when I visited the Mitchelle's. I also tried some stuff from a place called True Food. They were making really nice almond milk from home made almond butter and water. It was tasty. Their food was over priced though.
    After the Coffee Festival we went to Bevan's house then my house to get ready for the evening. We went to a friends party/casino night. It was fancy dress which was fun. I wore my favorite Federation dress which is awesome. We had some Indian food before heading down the my friends house. Then everyone headed to the casino at Sky City. It is one of two casinos in New Zealand. I didn't gamble because it doesn't seem like a good idea on tight finances.
     It was a super fun yet exhausting day. Luckily today I got to have a lazy day to calm down from it all.