Waitangi Day and McDonald's Brawls

I promise I'm not dead.  My lack of posting mainly has to do with the laziness that goes hand in hand with winter.  My motivation to do anything is at a low point.  It's not even cold here.  It's just raining constantly and that means that my main motivation is to stay warm and dry, which involves hanging out in my sweats and staying indoors as much as possible.  However, I went against this instinct on Saturday for a "pub crawl."  It turns out that Kiwis are the most outrageous of people and when it's Waitangi Day they go balls out and dress up in animal costumes or doctors (something to do with a TV program there).  What's Waitangi Day you ask?  That's a good question.  At the time I had no idea.  I actually didn't even know that the pub crawl was in honour of a New Zealand day.  I just showed up because I thought I should get out of the house.

Waitangi Day (/waɪˈtʌŋi/,^[1] named after Waitangi, where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed) commemorates a significant day in the history of New Zealand. It is a public holiday^[2] held each year on 6 February to celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document, on that date in 1840.

Copied straight from Wikipedia, so you know it's true.  Anyway, the pub crawl is meant to go along the Central Line and you're supposed to hit up 28 pubs along the way.  Obviously going into this I had no intention of completing it because I would be dead by the end of it.  Thankfully the pub crawl was actually just going into off license shops and walking around with beer.  It was crazy though.  There were like thousands of people there and all so loud and so drunk.

The best part of my night was at the end when my housemate and I went to McDonald's (obviously).  Three girls were berating the workers at McDonald's because they were drunk and mean and my housemate ripped into them and because I'm afraid of confrontation I apologized and told them they should just leave, but.....WE GOT FREE FOOD!!!  That's right, free McDonald's.  Basically one of my dreams come true.  It was aamazing!!!!  Best part of the day for sure.

As a side note, just watched Charles Hamelin win the gold in speed skating!  I love the Olympics and I'm proud of Canada because we're currently in first place for medals.  It's weird watching the Olympics here because it's obviously British coverage and therefore they don't care as much about Canada, which is a shame because the Brits aren't great at winter sports.  Now on to the moguls!