A few pictures!

So!

This past weekend I got to take a little trip to the new Mitre 10 Mega store in Hastings, which is the flagship store (I think?) of Mitre 10 in the area and it opened on Thursday. They have a shiny new cafe there as well, which is where I went to work on Friday since they're still sorting out staffing it.

It really is shiny and new, and of course I didn't take any pictures of it.

It's also incredibly busy, or was on that day I was there. Man, that was an exhausting day! It didn't help that I got a little walking tour of part of Hastings because I went the wrong way courtesy of not knowing that Karamu Road has both a north and a south branch.

Oops!

So I got a map of it and used paint to edit it!

Yay paint!

Although now that I look at it on a map it's not all that far, it just seemed very far at 7:30 in the morning.

On the bright side, if I hadn't taken that lovely detour to visit all three of those spots (with the correct one being last, of course), I wouldn't have seen this lovely place:

I probably looked rather strange taking a photo of that at 7:30 in the morning in a Columbus coffee uniform, but oh well.

As for the Hastings Mitre 10 Mega, I did take a picture of the outside! Not that it shows much other than how ridiculously huge it is. It does show the lovely shade of orange that all Mitre 10s are, though.

Incredibly big!

And now for the last picture - the cafe where I actually work.
















I wish I had taken a "before" picture, because it looks very different now with the renovations. The gal standing in the middle of the picture is Zoe, one of the two baristas. The dude on the left is exactly that, a random customer, and you can just see the top of Mikaela's head behind the cookie jar in the middle (it has Anzac biscuits in it!).

Side note, cookies = biscuits here.

So I guess it's a biscuit jar.

Other side notes I may have mentioned, dessert = pudding and dinner = afternoon tea. Strange!

Ok, that's it for now! We're doing the A&P business tomorrow, so I'll definitely take some pictures of that. The appetizers we worked on today were a soy tuna with a coconut dressing, a gazpacho, and we'll also be doing some scotch eggs using quail eggs and black pudding (ew) instead of regular chicken eggs and sausage meat (also ew).

We'll see how that goes!

Ttfn!