Another and Another (boat dive and pie day)

Video of me doing a scuba dive off of a boat in Porirua on the 28th of April.

We did two boat dives off the coast of Mana Island (sounds like a crazy video game), which is in Porirua. That was pretty sweet, as we saw some awesome underwater terrain (a little underwater canyon) and a bunch of sea life. Head on over to Kevin's album to see what we saw. The other people on our boat were advanced open water divers and caught some massive, I mean, super-massive, crays. As you can see from the pictures. It was pretty awesome and sad at the same time because we wouldn't be able to try what those super crays tasted like. Remember, I'm in the yellow snorkel, blue wetsuit.

We also had our third pie day at Weta on the 18th of May. That was another success and I actually baked two pies this time. A blueberry crumble/streusel pie and the famous key-wi lime pie. Lori made the other two pies - apple and lemon meringue. Nothing beats fresh homemade pies. They were all very tasty and I think a lot of people at Weta are getting addicted to pie day - yay! Here's some pictures of the baking process and the payoff the next day at Pie Day. It was pretty funny because the oven I was using at Mark's place doesn't have any proper labels (just some funky hand-drawn-with-magic-marker hieroglyphs, so it was interesting (well, fun, and by fun, I mean tragic) how I burnt the first two pie-crusts for the key-wi lime (easy enough to rebuild, but a hassle) because the mysterious oven was set to two different types of "broil". Anyways, Mark and I finally figured out the correct setting and the third time was a charm and I was able to make a "tasty as" key-wi lime pie! The second pie was pretty easy (thanks to Lori's pre-made dough!) - I had prepared the crumble top earlier in the day at home during lunch, where I had a quick picnic outside my flat since it was actually quite a nice day! Check it out:

Anyways, I was able to create the topping at home for lunch and it was pretty fun! And I am glad I did it earlier since I was figuring out how to use the oven and rolling the dough that Lori gave me earlier. Also, it was pretty much like magic when I started mixing the blueberry filling with the sugar, lemon juice and corn flour, as it turned into the consistency of pie-filling that we all know and love. So, the blueberry pie pretty much was very successful. It came out pretty great as the oven setting was correct. The only funny thing was that it was a 55 minute bake, so I played some guitar hero II as I waited. Yummy as!