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Random NZ cultural observation #57: Chocolate eggs seem to be the Easter Chocolate Thing of choice, rather than chocolate rabbits. I’ll need to survey the offerings of a few more grocery stores to be sure, but chocolate eggs come in a staggering variety of sizes (up to as-big-as-my-head) and formats, while there were only a couple of rather lacklustre chocolate rabbits on offer. Naturally, they don’t have Peeps.

Addendum to Oberservation #57: In the South Island every year, they have an Easter Bunny Shoot. For some reason, this cracks me up. Possibly that reason is the rabbits chewing great eroding bald patches in our back pasture.

NZ Quirks of Speech Observation #30: They say “In the South Island”. Not “on”, “in.” Dunno why.

Random Thought #7: Having a pod of orca wander into the harbor, hang out for the day hamming it up for the crowd, and then wander out again, is just tremendously Cool.