All Blacks vs France

Today, I got up semi-early to take care of a long list of errands.

First, I went to the lab, to use the internet.

I wanted to do some googling to figure out how I can get my phone to work. I think, it really was "locked" so that I can only use it with T-Mobile.
Thanks to Google, I found some webpages that contained "unlocking codes." I don't quite remember what I did, but something worked, and my phone actually accepted the Vodafone SIM card - woohoo!



The first thing I did was call my Dad. I got really bad service near the lab, but at least it worked and he could hear me!

After that, I called Mom. She was so excited to hear me - good thing I called :D

Then, I decided to do some walking around downtown Auckland. I walked towards Queen St and just looked into random stores. I found a strange little market, where they sell clothes, mostly, and jewlery. Then I got some lunch at Subways (hey, it was cheap!).
I walked down Queen St towards the water front and stopped by The Warehouse for some detergent and some yummy-smelling body lotion. On my way back towards The Railway Campus, I picked up some groceries at the Chinese food place. I got apples, oranges, green peppers and cellery, and everything for about 7 USD!

When I walked towards The Railway Campus, I ran into Jess and her roommate Luke. They wanted to pick me up so we could get dinner before the Rugby game tonight.


Luke didn't go in the end, because he wanted to meet up with his Mom, but Jess, Melanie, and me got in the car and drove to Mount Eden. There, we met up with Margie and Allen, friends of Jess's, and got Chinese food for dinner. After that, we went to the All Blacks vs France game.

The rugby game was actually kind of fun!
I still don't really understand the rules, and for some reason, there was no commentator, so that didn't help, either! The most important thing though, was that the All Blacks beat the French. In fact, everyone going in knew that the All Blacks would win. That's why some complained it was a boring game. Most of the crowd was in a good mood, though. Beer in plastic bottles was served liberally (the plastic bottles seem to be a safety measure of some sort, because as soon as the crowd got bored, people started throwing them...).