Louis Theroux can suck it!

This documentary was a terrifying look at the city's rougher neighborhoods, but anyone who sees it will immediately think this represents all of Philly.

Yea Phillies!!

I only heard about this tonight during the 6pm news!

Congratulations Kristian & Lorrisa!

Our friends Kristian and Lorrisa from Philly had a baby boy today! Welcome Wyatt James!

Cops

Last night was like a little taste of South Philly. Three drunk people stood on the sidewalk at 1:30am having a screaming match. Awesome. It was a huge Polynesian guy with no shirt on doing most of the yelling, while one of his friends held him back. From what we could gather, "Stephanie" is a "ho" who "f*cks " all "her ni*gers". Classy. We called the cops. Sadly, Stephanie is quite the ho -- this is not the first time we've been treated to one of her late night sidewalk discussions.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAUREEN!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIM!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURA!

Free Mumia? .. or not...?

I took down my Mumia post because I didn't want this to be a political blog (Obama 08!) and I forgot that when I posted the other night. I've always found the case fascinating, but so is Rock of Love and Survivor: Fans vs Faves. This blog is about New Zealand, cats, paint, booze, reality TV, and food! (but feel free to personally email me - it's a really interesting case.)

Porky & Porkies!

One of our favorite restaurants in Philly was an all-you-can-eat Korean barbecue place called Porky & Porkies. Stupid name, but it was dirt cheap ($16.95 each) and they even gave you free beer while they waited for their liquor license to come through. It was fantastic. We went almost every week. Then it closed. We never found its equal, until Friday night.

Mr. BBQ is an all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ a few miles away from our house and it's our new favorite restaurant. For the same price as Porky & Porkies, you get a huge selection of various kimchi, vegies, scallion pancakes, jap chae, and of course meat for barbecuing. I meant to take a picture but I was too busy eating.

You can take the girl out of Philly...

We were on the porch of our motel in Te Anau, enjoying a glass of wine, when I suddenly heard a certain familiar sound. Someone had one of those awful Nextel walkie-talkie phones. I slowly grew annoyed, and then angry, then rageful. Needing to share my fury, I said to Iain, “What the hell? Can you hear that stupid phone?!? Who brings one of those to a vacation spot??? This is unbelievable!!!”

He couldn’t hear it. We waited a few moments, I heard it again and said, “There!!! Can you hear that???” I was informed by an exasperated Iain that “the fu*king cell phone” I kept hearing was actually the cry of the native Tui bird.

It's not Pat's or Geno's but...

Actually, we were too afraid to try this.

Goodbye Philly!

We checked out of the Residence Inn yesterday (see picture). We were only there for 3 days and the room looked like we'd lived there for a year. We had to make a bunch of trips to the car and it pretty much sucked (Iain disagrees). The car is packed to the hilt but we managed to get on the road before noon and got to Annapolis a few hours later. Excellent.

The drive was uneventful, save for the incredible amount of awesome reststops on the way down 95. It seemed like there was a rest stop every 5 miles and each one had different food: KFC, Taco Bell, Sbarro, Denny's, Wendy's, Burger King, Philip's Seafood... we did not partake but it was tough to resist.

The cats behaved, meowing every so often but nothing major.