Today is my dads birthday back home so plan on making a cake... if nobody hears from me in a week, then something went horribly wrong and send help
The cake was a disaster. Turns out I am not Americas Next Top Chef and I am retiring that life long dream that was a complete fabrication of my mind. I stayed in for most of the day but I watched Piha Patrol (1st season of Piha Beach Rescue) to see a little bit of what Piha looks like during the summer months when it is super crowded. It was really quite a contrast of what I have seen so far, very isolated and deserted beaches is what I am familiar with, what I saw was unbelievably packed people sprawled out everywhere! On the show was really long canoe type boats that go out and battle the surf turn around and then come flying back in at top speed trying not to crash and also race the other boats. I asked Geoff what the boats were called. He replied, "Surf Boats".. durr makes sense I guess. This event was really quite comical I thought. Men in tiny speedos all greased up with paddles in a big canoe trying not to get killed by the boat flipping over. I mean I GUESS its pretty exciting for the guys in the boat, but I think it would be like Nascar... people are just there to watch the cars and in this case the boats to crash.
Either way Geoff and I went around and checked the rubbish bins to make sure they were emptied for the long weekend coming up. Piha is expected to get quite a lot of people over the labour day weekend if the weather holds out.
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