06.12.07
Iced Mocha Latte
At the Museum of New Zealand (Te Papa), their idea of an Iced Mocha Latte was cold espresso on top of what appeared to be vanilla ice cream. It was the strangest thing I have had in a coffee drink, but it was good.
My overall observation of NZ: A beautiful country occupied by the most generous and gracious people I have met. Indeed, their buses even said they were sorry when they were not in service. While I was there, the PM actually attended a funeral of one woman who had died because the electricity was shut off for lack of payment and she was on a respirator at the time. It totally puts “Shrub” to shame… The people there were so nice, that when I got there and the hotel was totally booked up through the 10th, the owners were even willing to put me up in their private residence if they could not find a place for me otherwise. I ask, is there any place in the US that would do that now? People just told me it is the NZ way…. this act of generosity was just normal.
