Never shared..

It's almost been a year since this happened. November 2010. That is quite shocking! Sorry.. Well when the U2 tour was announced I was a poor student living at home with my parents (basically now I remember that as the good life - I never realised how good I had it. Have to buy toothpaste and toilet paper with my own money now. And I like 2 or 3 PLY!). Because I was a student this meant I had all the time in the world to wait for the tickets to come out, be online and nab the super cheap ones! From memory I think they were like $39.00 each? Something riddonk like that! I will be honest.. Mainly wanted to go to see Jay. You know. Jay Z? We're on a one syllable basis.. I wish. Kong is one syllable right? Well I nabbed two tickets for me and Jeff-wah and convinced two of our friends to come road trip with us to Auckland for the show.

Here's a little run down of the pics I am sharing now. When Jay Z stepped out and started performing my heart melted from seeing those big lips. The down side of the cheap tickets was that the view wasn't great for Jay Z because all his gear was set up on the main middle stage facing the other way. I did get to see him arrive and depart though, which was surreal! To think that Jay Z was so close to me.. Sigh. It was quite awkward though, as we were surrounded by U2 fans.. Who had pretty much no idea who Jay Z was (I'm sure..) and looked at me and Jeff-wah with weird looks when we did our diamond signs. He is also a very lovely man, dedicating one of his newer tracks (at the time) Young Forever to the Pike River Miners.

U2 was amazing. They're just naturally talented and the show itself was so easy to get into and you just felt so involved. The stage was epic! Most of the time we were amazed by something that the stage was doing! It had little bridges that moved around and had this awesome screen that would expand. Crazy shit. Also living up to their humanitarian repuations they also displayed the names of all the miners lost in the Pike River tragedy on the screen.

While in Auckland for the concert we decided to hit up Dressmart in Onehunga. Excuse my language, but FUCK that place is big. Like, compared to the shitty little one we have in Wellington, it is MASSIVE. I mean it is nothing compared to the malls in Asia but damn girl that's a lot of outlet shopping right thurr. All the shopping in the photo is not all mine!

I tried rainbow Twizzlers and coconut M&M's. I bought a few packets of each from this random place called the Candyshack. I have no idea where it was but I remember it was down a dirty, dusty, unpaved alleyway/driveway thing and had no sign. We walked in and it was like a wholesale warehouse specialising in containers, paper cups etc. The guy opened this little pantry cabinet and there were all these American lollies and goodies in there! Word to the wise.. Twizzlers taste like playdough. And I know you know what playdough tastes like. And not the homemade one that you had at Kindy, the one that you buy from the store. Yeah. Not good. Also.. Twinkies are not as nice as I thought they would be? I didn't microwave it though. And I can't understand how anyone can eat a Poptart for breakfast? Why not just have a cupcake? Or a bowl of sugar?

Anyways, here enjoy some pictures, I've already said my thousand words!

Come on, vamanos!
Kalliana