How about this 10/10/10 business, eh? It would have been awesome to get married or be born on a day like today. Or do something else where you get to remember this date forever! It only happens once every hundred years, you know. This reminds me, one thing I’ve had to get used to over here in New Zealand is the way they write the date. For example, my birthday is May 18th and I’m used to writing it like this: 5/18/1984. However, in New Zealand, they write is as 18/5/1984. The first time I saw that I was all confused because WHAT THE HECK?? THERE IS NO EIGHTEENTH MONTH! I have decided it makes more sense because the numbers go in order from the smallest thing, day, to the biggest thing, year. It’s all mathematically sound and therefore I am happy again.
Haven’t you missed my silly rambling? No? Okay, on we go then…
The grand finale of our trip to see Josh’s Grandmother. We went to the Napier Centennial Gardens and it was so beautiful. I love to take photos of flowers. It was a lovely reminder that Spring has sprung here. I really am lucky to have gone from Summer right back into Spring again. I love the nice weather.
The Napier Centennial Gardens!
Enjoy the flowers! :)
There was even a waterfall!
Conquering my fears of spiders (okay… so there were no spiders) to capture a bokeh!
Josh climbing around. <3
Tomorrow, if the weather is nice, we are going to go to one of Josh’s favourite beaches… Castle Point. Cross your fingers for good weather because I hear it’s beautiful there!
You share your birthday with my dad. :)
Napier’s gardens look so much nicer than Hamilton’s do… and we’re apparently famous for ours. I guess the difference is that we have themed gardens and brightly coloured flowers only really feature in the Indian garden.
It’s a good thing you ended up in NZ rather than Australia if you’ve got a fear of spiders! :)
Your pictures are gorgeous!
Here in Europe we write the date day/month/year as well. It’s so confusing for me when I go on message board or blogs where they use the US way of writing dates, but you get used to it after a while.
Those FLOWERS! So pretty!
Gorgeous photos – such beautiful flowers!
I like the explanation you gave about writing the date in the form day/month/year. I’ve always disliked how it looked, but it does make sense to go from the smallest unit of time to largest. I’m feeling much more accepting now! :)
ZOMG waterfall! So pretty.
A lot of my co-workers are first generation immigrants from Asia and Europe, and the date thing can be a problem when it comes to dating food products. It’s pretty easily worked out among ourselves, but if a customer sees “11/12/10″ in December, for example… ugh.
Holy moly, the flower photos are gorgeous! :D
We write the date as d/m/y too. Every time I look at a website or something, I have to check how the date is written. It leaves me confused if I see something like 02/03/05. I can’t make head or tail of it! That’s why I’ve always preferred writing my dates in full, with the day, the “th/st/nd” and the month in full. Funny how a date can leave us mind-boggled or intrigue us, one way or another.
The cool thing is that 10/10/10 goes either way. ;)
I hope the weather is good for Castle Point!
Those flowers are beatiful! What a gorgeous waterfall. You are lucky to go back to Spring, as much I love autumn I’d rather forgo winter. Lovely as it is, I hate the cold.
Ah flowers and spring… flowers are lovely things but they make me sneeze. A LOT. So the rare occasions I’ve received flowers have been bittersweet – sweet for obvious reasons, then bitter because… well i better steer clear of them and just chuck em in a vase somewhere.
As for the date thing – in Taiwan they do the American thing as well and write the date backwards. It confuses me a lot when i read dates because sometimes if both numbers are small, and you don’t know which system the person is using, then it’s really hard, if not impossible to tell what the date is, haha. But you’re right though – i like doing the day/month/year thing because it makes logical sense like that.
Eh, I’m a bit sick of these omg special dates. There’s been one every year for the past decade and it won’t end for another 2 years.
What is a bokeh? a type of spider? ~ Love the photos of the flowers! Love, Mom xoxo
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