Pre-Holiday Celebrations!

Iain is currently in Dunedin visiting his family for a few days while I stayed home to work on my project. The day before he left, we went into town to do some Christmas shopping and have lunch. We ate at this cool outdoor/indoor market thingy called Elliot Stables (I like the name 'cause it reminds me of Elliot Stabler, on Law & Order: SVU).

Elliot Stables has a bunch of little restaurants in it, allowing you to go from place to place sampling all the food. There's a Spanish tapas place, an Italian place, a German sausage place, and a French place. Plus sushi, some gourmet markets, and a snazzy tea joint. It sounds incredible but we weren't overly impressed. The sausage place was a total let down. The Italian sausage was a complete joke.

Then we wandered over to Ponsonby for some drinks and more shopping before heading home.

It's weird going Christmas shopping in 70 degree weather but I'm getting used to it!

There would've been a billion more pictures but my camera died since I stupidly left it plugged into my laptop the day before, with it in "on" mode for like 3 hours.