Brekkie, Biskies, and the Beastie Boys

We've noticed that Kiwis tend to like to shorten and add "ie" or "y" to the end of as many words as possible. The most common ones we see are "brekkie" as short for "breakfast" and "biskie" as short for "biscuits" (which are cookies).

Yesterday, we got up and went to the albatross colony on the Otago Peninsula. We ended up not taking a tour because we would have had to wait a couple hours before the tour started, so we poked around the informational section and looked at the displays on the albatross and then headed back into Dunedin for brekkie at Everyday Gormet, a delicious little cafe we ate at the day before. We also picked up several sandwches and other goodies to eat later, and then hit the road.

The day was mostly a classic roadtrip as we raced up the coast--we needed to make it all the way to a town near Christchurch because we had a reservation to swim with dolphins on Friday. We cued up a slew of music, broke out the biskies, and hit the road. The music kept us rolling and we got into town at a very reasonable 8 pm. I even got a short movie of Kerrie getting her groove on while driving.