Home Sweet Home.....

Yay! I'm back in Tauranga! my sweet little home!

I really don't come back here often enough I say.  I got off the bus back from Auckland and my friends picked me up, then straight off to the beach..... And I managed to body surf!!! I was more than slightly stoked.  Now I no longer need boogie boards to ride the waves now!!  It was already 5pm by the time we got to the beach, but it was so nice that we could have stayed there til a lot later than we did, but our stomach was grumbling a bit.... meh, what do you know, exercises make you hungry.

On the menu was home made pizza with roasted chicken, bacon, avocado and onions..... and obviously base made from scratch! mmmmm I missed you Wilma!! you're such a mama! Then for dessert, pancakes with boysenberry icecream, apricot compote, shaved chocolate, lemon&sugar, jam, you name it, anything you wish for!! What an evening.... it couldn't have gotten better.

I'm slightly regretting not coming down earlier now.  Tauranga is simply so beautiful, I just love it so much.   There is nowhere else as beautiful as this place.  And it is definitely going to be one of the thing I'm going to miss about NZ.  It's slightly emotional to think that this may be the last time I'd get to see Tauranga for while - maybe even few years. Few years a go, I didn't think there would be a day when my parents wouldn't be in NZ, and having no home to be at.  And now when I leave, there is going to be even a less of a chance of me coming back.  It was hard enough trying to decide whether to go back to Japan for the summer or to spend the summer in Tauranga, but this is even more extreme......

All my friends whom I love, my loving country and my sweet memories, it's time for me to say good bye.

Me and Poet had a talk one day about a "perfect day", and now I think I've got another version of my perfect day.  It will be a day with all of my dearest high school friends, a whole day filled with outdoors, beaches, rivers, campgrounds, anywhere you name it! Bring on the boogie boards, skim boards, mountain boards and kites, just anything and everything! BBQ or classic Fish and Chips on the beach for dinner, and hanging out at the beach until the sun goes down then hit the spa to take the break from the hustle and bustle from the day time.  It seems as though those days don't happen at all anymore, but I wish one day when I come back to NZ, that't the way we will spend the day..... in this sweet home town.

I have a day and a half  left in Tauranga, and I want to make the most of this beautiful city.....
And I will NOT cry when I leave my home behind...