It's My Birthday, I Will Rant If I Want To!

So apparently I'm going to be 22 in like 5min. Or am I? I am currently pretty much an entire day ahead of the time zone I was born in so technically it's not yet my birthday, or does it go by wherever you are in the world? Either way no one warned me that I was suddenly no longer going to be 10 and all of a sudden I would be a true adult without anymore excuses.

So I got past the extra-special 21 and there is not another big marker until 25 so basically the next few years are just filler birthdays. 22, it just sounds gross! But at least I don't have to spend it at some boring dinner or bar or however one would usually spend one of the most insignificant birthdays ever.

I get to be traipsing around New Zealand. I did a bit of that today, after one of the longest plane trips I have ever taken. I thought flying from New Mexico to India was long but I think the trip from there to New Zealand might be worse... I also unfortunately got sick, so that sucks. 

I was pretty ill my first whole day here and kinda just passed out in our hostel after taking a shuttle, walking aimlessly around downtown Aukland with a 13kg pack on my back, and than finally taking a really short cab ride to the hostel cuz I was sweating bullets and about to pass out on the street corner. Luckily that did not happen and I got to shower before I fell into a coma from a fit of coughing. I woke up briefly to eat some sushi (cuz a woman's gotta eat!) and than I slept through the night.

I got up this morning and felt loads better. I flushed even more gross India toxins out with massive amounts of liquid and vitamin C before we went to spend the day in one of the coolest museums I've ever been to. Like how cool is it that New Zealand is literally the last place on earth to be settled by humans who are also the first mammals (besides a stupid little bat that flew here from Australia and probably should not even count) to inhabit the land. I always thought New Zealand was all about the sheep but turns out there are no mammals that are even native here, just birds! 

After the lesson in all things Polynesia we went to feel powerful and behold the whole city from the massive skytower (quite like the Pearl tower in Shanghai or the space needle in Seattle). We had some tea up at the tippity top and watched the sunset (at like 8:30pm may I add, hell yeah summer! And Southern Hemisphere!). 

So yeah, after that birthday dinner (la la la, we get it Dharma it's your birthday and shit). Now I am in bed wrestling with my quarter-life crises but not really because 22 doesn't even get that I have to wait until I'm 25...