Last Friday, my family and I went to Auckland city because my mother bought 2 tickets for my sister and I to ice skate. When we parked our car, walked and arrived at Paradice Ice Skating, it was already one o’clock pm. So we waited in line for 5 minutes then my mother showed her QR code so we could get our skates.
After we got our skates, we hurried along to try our skates. At first, it felt kind of wonky since I forgot to ice skate. After 10 or 15 minutes, I got the hang of it. I tried to spin like my sister did, but I almost fell so I just focused on speed skating. After a while, I felt bored so I kept on trying to spin until I also got the hang of it.
After skating, we went out and walked around the city, looking to try out new food and stores. We also found a 3 storey building that was closing down so we went inside and explored the first floor which had clothes and makeup. Unfortunately, I’m not patient so I kept on complaining to my mother since it’s only for girls.
Then we went to the second floor which also had clothes and more girl things including jewellery if I remember correctly. Then we went to the third floor which had decorations and ornaments.
It also had expensive wine and champagne, like gucci champagne and wine. Fun fact, they served gucci champagne when people entered to shop around. Lastly, there’s special chocolate and sweets like mixed fudge. (which is vanilla fudge, chocolate fudge and russian fudge) and more. Since the store is closing down, we bought the chocolate fudge for eleven dollars if my memory serves me right. Then, we left and continued walking until we were getting hungry.
We then proceeded to a pizzeria and got a 40 cm pizza (I forgot how much it cost). It is one of the cheesiest and most delicious pizzas I have eaten in a long time which filled me up a quarter but remember that we were just getting started and we just wanted to taste it.
While we were eating, we also ate the mixed fudge but I looked at the ingredients and it had so much sugar so we only ate one! We also looked at an ice cream and waffle shop because it’s next to the pizzeria. Unfortunately, we’re only tasting not eating like it’s dinner, so we ordered one waffle with ice cream (I forgot the flavour) and cinnamon.
The waffle is really crunchy and a little soft. The ice cream is creamy like any normal ice cream but it’s a little more special because of the sweet cinnamon. We all took bites but my sister and I ate most of the waffles because I think that it is too sweet for them.
Now I was either one half full or even three quarters full so we walked for some time, looking around shops. We were also craving for more sugary foods so my mother bought four donuts. Two of them were oreo donuts and the other two were caramel. My sister and I got the oreo donuts since my mother and father don’t like them so they got the caramel. When I first bit in the donut, I thought that its a normal donut with just toppings, but when I took a bite again, I realised that it has an oreo cream filling and it is one of the most unhealthiest donuts I’ve had so I gave a little bit to my mother and father.
I was so full that I tried walking but it was hard, so we explored more and walked more until we found a bakery so my mother bought a matcha bread with small mochi in it and a dirty chocolate bread with cream in it if I didn’t forget.
Since I was so full, I didn’t eat anything until my sister told me that there is mochi inside of the matcha bread so I ate some. I also ate some dirty chocolate bread so I knew what it tasted like.
Since I rested while eating, I had some appetite and because we looked at a chicken restaurant, we went there and ordered 2 crispy drum and 2 wings, with a little bit of spicy bulgogi which is a sweet sauce. When I tasted it, it was spicy but not too much.
Sadly, there’s only more crispy skin than the meat. At Least the skin isn’t flabby! After we finished eating, washing our hands, we waited 20 or 30 minutes for my dad to write a message to his work mate or something. I think I might’ve made my dad angry since I kept on complaining until he told me to stop.
After he finished his message we walked around and I thought that we’re going back home but remember that we’re just exploring so sadly we went to Nando’s Chicken for dinner. When we sat down, we ordered one full grilled chicken, 4 large thick rippable pitas, spicy rice (which isn’t spicy),4 extra small pitas and hummus with a free hot sauce for it. When we got our food, my sister complained that she wanted fries instead of spicy rice but my mothers explained that we’re eating dinner so no more exploring since we’ve eaten at Nando’s two or three times.
The chicken tasted so fresh and tender, even the breasts of the chicken which is normally dry were tender! The pitas tasted a little bit fresh even though I think I saw them microwaving them but they tasted a lot more fresh with hummus. The hummus had a light taste but with the free hot sauce, it had a good kick! The spicy rice wasn’t that spicy but my sister said that it was spicy. I think her spice tolerance is low since she doesn’t try spice that much. Usually, we’re hungry if we don’t eat anything, but my sister and I ate so much that we had to get boxes for our food to take home.
In the end, we walked on our way back to our car and put all our things, including the mixed fudge into the trunk of the car and went on the motorway back home. I’ve had the best time here in Auckland even though I complained sometimes but I wish I could do it again in Auckland city with my family.