The Kingmans in Kiwi Land! Day 1...

Hi y'all!
Yes I'm back! Yes, I'm still alive and haven't forgotten that I have a blog!
I had a fabulous trip to Wellington with Mum, Dad, Yvette and Alicia, with no husbands or children! I didn't miss Jaimeson too bad, I'd say because it wasn't an environment I was used to having him in, and there were no other children around. I was so happy when I got home though, and LOVED getting his excited cuddles and big smiles again {hearts rising from head}.
Yvette is doing a FANTASTIC job at blogging about our trip, you can read Day 1 HERE, and seeing as I'd only be repeating what she has already so beautifully blogged, I decided I would concentrate on the food aspect of our trip. Cos we ate A.LOT. Like, we ate every day! (LOL!) No really, we ate at some awesome establishments & I do like taking pics of food, so I'm going to give you the "Kingmans in Kiwi Land Grand Gastronomical Tour"! Sit back and enjoy (and salivate {licking lips!}).
I'm sorry for the poor quality of my pics, it turns out 13000 pics (overall) is quite a large number to be taken by a little pocket camera, and it has decided enough is enough! They looked fine on the camera screen, but now I've downloaded them, I find some are quite crap. {smacking hand on forehead}. Better get a new camera for Hawaii then!

Lets whet your appetite with a little plane food! In fact, it wasn't bad. I think I am actually one of those weird people who enjoys aeroplane food. {Hands smacking against cheeks}. I KNOW! These kind of people do exist!

It was chicken casserole with green beans & mash and a little side salad of roasted veggies. Can you have a salad of veggies? You know what I mean... And then there was a square of apricot and frangipani cake. It was a bit weird. Like eating a piece of cold, apricot flavoured, kitchen sponge. I finished it though.

Our first night's dinner was at the General Practitioner on the corner of Willis Street and Boulcott St in Wellington city. It was in this gorgeous old San Francisco-style house that used to be the Doctor's surgery and residence. They even still have his leather Doctor's bag and some old books and tools on display! Totally awesome.

Their menu changes nightly. Can you imagine! You could go back night after night and eat something different!

I had Salt and Pepper Squid, then shared a chocolate cake dessert with Yvette. Both were delicious! The portion was small cos it was an entree size squid, but the flavour of the squid was awesome and the avocado on the side was so yum!

 Yvette had the mussels, and Mum and Dad shared Mussels and Lamb Shanks. Yum!
The meals were all so pretty too. I love when they put effort in to presentation like this! So cool!

Here we are upstairs in the GP in what used to be the Main Bedroom. I loved it's 2 big bay windows! So beautiful. There was a photograph of the city block it's on, with all of the buildings surrounding it knocked down to the ground, with the GP just crouching on the corner of the big empty block, so lonely! I'm SO HAPPY they didn't knock it down too, it's so beautiful!

These trophy antlers were covering the walls of the room we ate in, along with heaps of hunting pics from around the Wellington area. There was so much to look at!

There was this cool display column up the centre of the staircase with all the old tools and books in it. So cool!
So that was our first awesome meal! Stay tuned for more cool eats around Wellington!
:) C