And then we found a new home

We've been so lucky these last few days. Well, lucky because we've deserved it. We have been struggling a lot. Some days have felt hopeless, depressing and meaningless. I've felt like I just want to go home, like nothing is going our way. But then we've both tried to remind ourselves with everything that actually has gone our way, how lucky we are to even be in this country, to be able to travel as freely as we have, how lucky we are to have met the most amazing people, the lovely people that have inviting us into their homes and lives. Why is it that you always acknowledge the bad things that happens in life, and forget all the good things?

Anyway. I'm not gonna get more deep and philosophic than that today, the point is that the struggle has paid off, cause yesterday we found a house to live in! So now we both have a full time job that we wanted, and a lovely, huge room, in a lovely house, in the lovely neighborhood of Mount Eden.

We went there yesterday on a house view and instantly fell in love with the area. It's so pretty and is filled with cute stores, restaurants and cool bars. (To be fair, any place that have vegan cookies have my heart..)

After the house view, we decided to concur the summit of Mount Eden, the view from the top was absolutely stunning! Even though the mountain didn't seem that high, we could see all of Auckland from up here and we enjoyed looking over our future home area.

It is also, without a doubt, the most amazing place I've ever had sushi at! (Yes, sushi today again!)

Back down in the little Mount Eden village, we celebrated the fact that we gonna have somewhere to live permanently,(with, did I mention, lovely people, in a gorgeous house?) by going for a late afternoon beer at one of the pubs.

The celebration continued in our less fabulous, soon to be ex, home (a shitty little crowded room in a hostel like evironment) when we made burritos with brown rice, fresh lettuce & tomatoes, hummus and this vegan mock rib meat.

We bought the mock meat amongst other fake meat products that we randomly found in a internet cafe/Asian supermarket called Oriental, just off Queens Street. It was like a vegan dream to food shop in there! They had everything and a little bit more (and by everything I mean everything, even fake fish (!) , vegan noodles, sushi stuff, soy shakes, vegan chocolate etc)

We bought some cheap tofu, dried soy protein and different kind of fake meat. 

The vegetarian Kyoto Ribs, that we tried with the burrito, was almost scary to eat. It tasted sooo much like animal meat that I had to double check the ingredients on the pack to make sure it was vegan. So if you're a vegan that don't like the meaty flavour or texture, avoid this product! But if you miss meat, but don't want it from dead animals - this is the way to go!

I am scared to try the fake lamb.. 

Anywho, now it's time to go and meet our future house mates to sign contracts and chat about everything that we need to sort out. Move in is in a week and I can't wait!