We went to some markets, watched a rugby game, cooked dinner, went out to an underground dance club, got late night diner breakfast, and then went to the movies on Easter (with nothing else being open). I feel kind of guilty for having weekends like this: weekends where you could do almost all of these things in the States, because I feel like I'm not taking advantage of New Zealand during my last month here (25 days left in the country!!!) but honestly, I had so much fun this weekend I don't even really care. With the biggest (and I mean literally biggest) paper of my life to date due in 15 days, I am not going to be having much fun any time soon, so it was nice to let loose for a couple of days.
The most celebrating we did for Easter itself was to go see a movie, which is kind of sad. But then again, back home I would probably have been eating chocolate, followed by a ham, so the fact that I was sitting in a movie theater, eating chocolate, followed by popcorn was not that different. Easter and Good Friday are a huge deal nationally in NZ apparently, because EVERYTHING was closed or needed a special license to be open on those 2 days, and bars all closed at midnight on Saturday (except for the casino ironically. Not quite sure why they were exempt). Maybe it's not so much that NZ is a Christian nation that the holidays closed businesses though, it could just be that NZ service industry workers like having a few days off :-P
Hope everyone back home enjoyed their jelly beans, ham, chocolate bunnies, church, day off work, and whatever else they did today!!!
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