Crazy fun times!!

Well well well it is officially just under 4 weeks until I fly to Florida to be with the Nimmo's (ekkkk), and let me tell ya I am so excited!!! I can't wait to go to the theme parks and ride on the kiddie rides. I say kiddie rides because (confession time) I'm not much of a fan of the roller coasters. Last time I went on one yeah it was not good, let's just say people thought I was having a panic attack. BUT that was 7 years ago and I am a grown woman (haha grown, I laugh), so I'm gonna face my fear and go on some roller coasters, May wet my pants! (To much information, absolutely disgusting).

 

Anyway last weekend apparently it was Labour weekend, didn't know until last week. So didn't make any plans to go away, although I did go to the ZOO with a friend of mine which was GREAT because we didn't have to spend any money (I love free stuff, my family have a membership for the zoo)! 

We were there for pretty much the whole day walking around looking at all the animals (because that's what you do at zoo's). You may think that I really love animals to be there for the WHOLE day but really it was because it was free (yes aupairs are poor and love free stuff). 

My friend and I went on a bug carousel it was actually a lot of fun and quite hilerious (oh how I love the kids rides)! I was sitting on a ladybug, yep..grown woman. 

Also here are some animals that I'm keeping as pets: 

Polar bear I named him Polar Bear. 

These are Zebras not horses and I named them Stripey, both of them. 

Pretty butterflies that I didn't name because their were to many and they all look the same, awkward!

MONKEY!!! 

Planet of the Apes... They were my favourite ones to see at the zoo. 

Their were a lot of birds but we didn't go see them because to us they just aren't interesting enough and also they WILL attack you while you are running on the road (I've had experience). 

Sunday I went to Church and I was wearing JEANS!! Seriously what was I thinking! I mean, it did say it was meant to rain but OH NO the sun decides to come out as soon as I get into the city. So it is disgustingly hot walking around, probably one of the hottest days out of the whole summer! 

Monday (labour day), I walked into a little village called bronxville and met up with my friends for lunch. Again walking about 15mins to this village when it is 95 degrees Fahrenheit. I am sweating and gross so again not a smart move. 

Tonight I was eating dinner with the kids and they both decide they want to eat a green jalopeno spicy pepper thing. So I decided to try a little bit and OMG I took the first bite and 3 seconds later my mouth is on fire, my tongue literally goes numb like I seriously couldn't talk properly for a few minutes. I had never tasted something so spicy that it has stung and hurt my mouth, I couldn't stop drinking milk (which makes it feel better) and my 15 year old goes 'oh it wasn't that bad', That BAD! I thought I was having an allergic reaction (mind you I can't handle anything spicy so that was not a smart move). 

So a lot of photos this week, I hope you enjoy them and enjoy reading about my crazy fun times! 

#kiaoranewyork 

Krystal xo

Kristie comes to town !

Kiaora my bro's, how's everyone on this fine day? Swell I hope! 

It's been a glorious week! Why? Well because of my new Nikes of course, they are just Stella!! 

Ahhhh, don't you just want to drool over them beautiful things! 

I've had a fun but busy week sorting out the kids rooms before school starts and having their friends over to play and taking one of my kids to soccer tryouts, which she got into the team woop woop, I'm so proud of her! 

(I taught her everything..)

I made a movie with Michella (11yr old) and her friend and also Jules (15yr old) joined in. Now it started off awesome, then Jules and I just got a little bit carried away, getting all hypo and doing cartwheels and saying random stuff. Apparently we ruined the movie, but I just can't help it when the diva comes out in me, I mean I like saying random stuff, is that so wrong?!

Friday came around and Kristie was coming to stay for the weekend (boomtown)! That night another New  Zealander from Christchurch came round and we went out to dinner, we had sushi (best sushi ever!!). 

Then we went back to mine, watched movies and I dyed Kristie's hair which didn't come out at all (gutts). 

Saturday we went into the city and walked to the Met museum, which is like 50 billion streets uptown. OMG My feet nearly died! We got there and we didn't even go because it was expensive and we didn't want to just look at paintings. So we then decided to hop on the subway to Brooklyn and go to a museum there. By this time I'm quite tired and would like to chop my feet off because they are so sore, but that wouldn't be good because I would have Stubbs and I wouldn't beable to paint my toes cause I wouldn't have toes (first world problems). 

We got food first at good old Wendy's (better than McDonald's). And yes we were the only white people as Kristie pointed out (not a racist comment just an observation people). 

We got to the museum and it was a suggested $12 to get in but because we are Aupairs we decided to pay $5 (some may say we are stingy but nope we are just poor). 

I'm not much of a museum person but here some crazy photos.

That's Kristie in the background photo bombing and that's our new friend.

Little people yay!

I was just confused about this guy, I mean where was he going? 

I thought this one looked like my brother.

Umm a mummy..

Sunday we went to Church oh it was soo good I love Church so much that we went twice, boom!  

This is a random photo of us in front of a Library.

We also decided to get our eyebrows threaded and then I was walking round the city with bright red eyebrows so had to go to Macys and put makeup on because I looked hileriously awesome! 

I said goodbye to Kristie and then travelled back home. 

Great weekend! 

#kiaoranewyork 

Krystal xo

Nashville BABY Nashville

Monday morning I got on a plane and headed to Nashville Tennessee baby woohoo!! 

The plane ride was great. NO turbulence at all (hallelujah! Praise Jesus!). I landed and picked up my bag from the bag area (yep that thing that as a little child you always wished you could ride on.. One day people, one day it will happen). 

I got picked up by my parents friend that I was staying with for the week. She has 2 kids, a 9 year old girl and a 2 year old boy and they are just seriously awesome!! They live in Franklyn where famous people live like Leonardo Dicaprio, Oprah, Nicole Kidman etc. I had so much fun hanging out with them going for walks in the morning with the mum, going to the mall, watching movies and playing games. 

One day we travelled out to the Amish area which was like 1 hour drive. it was so interesting! They don't have electricity, they eat from the land, they get the kids working pretty much as soon as they can walk, it's insane. They are pretty much living in poverty, which is sad, but they choose to live like that. 

Anyway so they sell things to people that come in. It's very random but I bought a yo-yo (lol). It's handmade by the Amish so I thought I'd take it as a souvenir (although I may have lost it.. hmmm). It's insane, they travel in horse and carriage everywhere. I always wished that I lived in a world where people rode horses everywhere instead of driving cars, hmm maybe I should become Amish? Haha don't be silly, I would die!! 

I had to take sneaky photos because they don't like it, but this is how they live.

I also met another nanny that lived next door. She took me to Church with her and it really reminded me of home. There were so many young people and the worship was so good !!

The pastors were Australian and I had recognized them, so I texted my Dad and asked if He knew Henry and Alex seale (I have no idea if that's how you spell their last name, but oh well), of course Dad knew them. They used to work at Planetshakers church (CRAZY, such a small world!). After church I said hello to them and mentioned my Dad and other people and He was like 'noway that's insane, yeah I know them'. Who would of thought you would meet someone IN Nashville that knows people that you know (cray cray!).

Then me and some people went and got ice cream. Then they took me to this sign that is apparently famous which says 'I believe in Nashville'.  

I fell in love with the family I was staying with, they were so welcoming and really made me feel apart of the family. I was sad to leave them but I know that I will definitely be back in Nashville again!! 

Peace out yo and love life!

#kiaoranashville

Krystal xo

Phone went traveling!

Hello hello don't worry I am alive! My phone just decided to stay in Boston for a few weeks so I have not been able to blog that's okay though because I have a great story! 

It started a few weeks ago where I decided to go to Boston for the weekend to hangout with my friend Kristie, who had been in the country for about a week doing the same thing as I do (not herding sheep, guys.. Nannying). So I hopped on the train from Rhode Island and travelled to Boston where I would stop at a train station and Kristie would pick me up. It was about 12am, I got off the train and was waiting for my friend to come get me. Because it was midnight, the station was very empty, everything was closed and I was just sitting with my cheetah print suitcase looking all homeless and stuff (good times!). Then I got a call from Kristie asking where I am, I'm like 'I'm sitting by the entrance, are you here?' She goes 'yea I'm here but your not'. Now this is when I realize 'OH SNAP' I got off at the WRONG train station and it's NOW 1am in the morning and I'm in BOSTON!!!! So I had to catch a cab to Kristies house which was 40mins away and costed a heck of a lot of money, cray cray!! 

Finally got there about 2am in the morning, so tired. 

On Saturday Kristie and I went into the city, did some shopping and had brunch. We both ordered French toast. Now this was not French Toast it was more like a donut! It reminded me of when you go to the Fish & Chip store and order a deep fried Moro bar.. Yep that's exactly what it was. So good but so bad!! 

(Random statue, probably important).

We were walking down the street and found these people who were busking and jumping over people so we watched that for a bit until they wanted money so we ran (well not ran, we walked away.. fast). 

When we got back to her house we had some food, talked about life and twerked... Yep! 

On Sunday we headed to the mall for more shopping because you can never do to much (holla!). We spent most of our time in Mac trying on dark lipstick (such fun)! 

For lunch we headed to the rainforest restaurant. You walk in and there's monkeys, elephants, birds, massive fish tanks and it looks exactly like a rainforest. We were probably the only Adults without children there but who cares we loved it!!!

After all the shopping we caught a cab, went to Church then met up with another New Zealander and had dinner. 

The violinist was awesome!! 

Monday morning it was time to leave, so Kristie dropped me off at the train station, we said goodbye and I was looking in my bags for my phone to get my train ticket out, I couldn't see my phone so I checked again, still no phone! That is when I started freaking out! I couldn't contact Kristie to tell her, I couldn't contact anyone. It was one of those horrible sweaty moments (yum). 

I went up to the ticket people nearly in tears and asked if they can print my ticket out. I then told them that I left my phone in Boston and that my  phone is literally my life ( oh gosh that's sad.. they must have thought I was crazy). No but seriously it is my only way of communicating with my family and friends back home and I didn't know any of my host families numbers of by heart so they wouldn't know when to pick me up. So if you were in this situation yeah you would be freaking out to! 

When I hopped on the train I asked the train conductor if there were computers on the train I was so desperate to try and contact my friend. Of course there are no computers on the train (so silly)!

I got to Rhode Island and decided that I would walk to the Library because they have computers and hopefully my host family will be there also. I walked in, looked around no computers free and no family so I then went to the second floor and right there was one of my kids I was so happy I yelled 'Michella! I'm so happy y'all are here' (forgetting I'm in a library, got told off for talking to loud, woops). I got onto Facebook and saw that Kristie had messaged me about my phone. I gave her the post office address so she could send it up to Me. Friday came around so I rang the post office to ask if my package had arrived and no it hadn't. Then it was Saturday and so I rang again and still it hadn't showed. I thought that was weird so I decided to go down to the post office and ask. And OMG they decided that they would send it all the way back to Boston because apparently it didn't have the right address (oh it did)! Now I'm even more frustrated! My phone didn't arrive in Boston until Wednesday so I told my friend just to send it to New York because I was going back for the weekend. So 2 weeks later and I finally get my phone back! Oh yess it felt like Christmas except nothing had changed with my phone, I mean it was still a 4s, it would of been nice if someone slipped in a 5s that really would have been the cherry on top!

Anyway that was a long story. My life just gets more interesting! Now I'm headed to Nashville so let's hope I don't leave anything behind. I hope to ride a horse and get famous in a week.

 So talk to you homies later, have a great life! 

#kiaoranewyork

#outofcontrol

Krystal xo

Rhode Island woop!

Last week I travelled to Rhode Island which is about 2hours away from NYC. My family have a summer house (Bach) there. It is great! 10mins away from the beach and it really reminds me of back home. It is beautiful!! 

The first thing we really did was go crabbing and yes I caught pretty much all the crabs (I'm a professional crabber.. If that's even a thing). At the end we just threw them back into the water, I mean what's up with that? We should at least eat them or chuck them at each other, but no (I'm to immature to be the nanny)! 

Michella (11yr old) and I decided to go on a bike ride and as we were biking I was like 'yo let's double' she goes 'what will we do with my bike though' I go 'oh yeah we can put it on the  back of my bike' (I had one of those things on the back that you can tie stuff to it.. Probably not for another bike but, hey). Anyway so long story short it ended bad and I now have a massive bruise on my leg (nice look for the beach!). An idea that I thought was great that really failed!! 

The beach is awesome! There are lifeguards that can save me when I drown (good looking ones to), an arcade where me and the kids went and played some fun games, a water park, go carts, cafés to buy food (really good food!) and the sea to swim in of course. 

Thought this cow was cute.. Has nothing to do with this blog lol. 

On Saturday night we all went to a pizza restaurant (so good!). And that's when I shared with the whole family that I've been nominated for the ice challenge (not a good idea). So the whole time, Michella is putting ice down my top, I'm getting ice chucked at me and I'm like guys we are in a restaurant and they go it's fine we are just starting the ice challenge now (Awesome, shouldn't of said anything). 

It was an awesome week but I did miss my New York friends a lot! I have just been back in New York for a week and now I'm on a train heading to Boston to meet up with a good friend from my hometown (cause we run the world. Siri says I'm Beyoncé). 

So catch y'all on the flip side!

#kiaoranewyork

#weruntheworld 

Krystal xo

4th July weekend 🇺🇸

 My whole family went away for the weekend so I had the house to myself (party?! Nah I would get deported). 

So as everyone knows, on Friday it was July 4th which is Americas Independence Day (boom). It was a beautiful thing, people were out celebrating by watching the soccer (the USA weren't even playing..but ohk.. Go Germany!!) 

Me and three of my friends found a burger place and ate burgers for dinner they were really good and mine were tiny (so cute)! 

We then headed to the Brooklyn bridge to watch the massive fireworks. There were so many people and so many cops around telling us where to go to see the fireworks on this bridge, and the cops kept yelling 'keep moving' and we got our bags checked for you know.. bombs I guess. And we were following all these people up on this bridge and it felt like we were in one of those movies, that you know has a virus in the city and everyone has to leave and some people are getting left behind cause they have the virus etc, oh cray cray! 

The fireworks were amazing!! Check it out .. 

On Saturday my good friend Rachel came to mine and I made pancakes and bacon (seriously the best). Then we went to the malls had a look around did some shopping and laughed a lot (like always). For dinner we had McDonald's (of all places) and parked up in this random park (didn't know where we were lol). 

After we got fat we went to the cinemas and watched Tammy (GREAT movie!). 

On Sunday I headed out to tarry town which is still in New York somewhere, and went to see my other good friend all the way from NZ, Kristie, yay!! 

(I like our facials)

 She's doing nannying as well and living in Boston, so not to far away from me. It was great to catch up with her and have weird conversations again (love her!). Can't wait to have weekend trips to Boston! 

It was a great weekend and I'm now chilling at a beach (even better).

 Hope y'all had a great 4th of July and are happy to be an American or a New Zealander or German which ever floats ya boat! 

#lovemyjob

#kiaoranewyork 

Love and peace 🗽

Krystal xo

I ain't no touristy.

Here I am everyone, sorry it's been so long but I've been busy with the kids as they finished school for the year (yay I don't have to make lunches for like 2 months!). I am very excited to go away with the kids and spend more time with them, it's gonna be a great holiday!! 

Any who, so not the weekend just been, but the weekend before was a very relaxed, chilled weekend. I stayed at my friends house, watched movies, ate a lot of ice cream and tanned outside. We didn't go into the city the whole weekend.. Well mostly cause I didn't want to spend money on the train, but it turned out to be one of the best weekends! The moment you feel like you ain't no tourist anymore, is the moment you can just chill at home in NY (it's a beautiful thing!).

Now this weekend just been was great! I went and watched 22 jump street, oh WOW! I haven't laughed like that in the movies in a longtime, it was hilarious!! Then Saturday my friend and I went shopping and then headed to a Jamaican lady's 50th party, and yes we were the only white people there, got quite awkward cause everyone would just stare at us, I think they thought we were party crashers, but we weren't or were we?!.. In the end It was a lot of fun and the music was great so reggae! 

Sunday we went to the city and watched the gay pride parade (all I can say is Weow).

Didn't get any good photos, but this float is orange is the new black cast dancing on it (for those of you who know what I'm talking about). 

My new obsession is Starbucks mocha Frappes (oh so good!!) 

Then we headed to church. It was awesome like always! And I met this guy from London who knows a guy that I know who lives in London which was CRAZY!! The world is so big but really it's so small lol. 

Last night I headed to the city to watch my girls piano recital. It was good but oh my gosh soo boring! After that we went to dinner to this diner where the waitresses sang songs off broadway it was a great experience, the whole diner was singing along to the songs which was really cool! 

Alrighty have a great week everyone! 

Peace out.

#kiaoranewyork 

#aintnotouristy

Krystal xo