Its been a while since I posted about Christchurch, so I'll talk about a less exciting but relaxing place to be in called Sumner, because me and the Hiiragi sisters so happened to end up here after getting lost for a while. If you think that you're tired of a place that has too much to see, come here and relax yourself. Its actually also a beach, so you can dip your legs in the icy water and enjoy yourself in the freezing pacific breeze.

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written by astrobunny \\ ball, beach, bins, boat, cake, cannon, christchurch, coffee, hiiragi, kagami, metal, playground, polarizing filter, rocks, sail, sand, seagulls, sky, sumner, tsukasa, yacht

This year's Armaggeddon in Christchurch actually had a queue comparable to Auckland's! It was so long it took people half and hour to get from the back of the queue to the front. They need more counters!
Day 2 is here

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written by astrobunny \\ 2010, armageddon, asuka, auron, christchurch, cosplay, eva, firefox, girls, hellsing, kagami, maid, pedobear, rei, spiderman, team fortress

Second day of Armageddon and the queue that was characteristic of the even yesterday was gone. Today lots of people were already inside by the time we arrived. Somehow.

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written by astrobunny \\ 2010, akatsuki, anime, armageddon, batgirl, christchurch, cirno, haruhi, itachi, kagami, macross, mario, marisa, new zealand, nz, pee, ramen, ranka, reimu, sayonara, sensei, stage, superman, touhou, video, wookie, zetsubou

Lately I've become more and more of an outdoors guy. I guess you change when you fall in love with someone and decide to spend more of your free time with that special someone. Hence, I decided that this weekend, I would bring Kagami out on another trip to one of the numerous parks in Christchurch.

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written by astrobunny \\ bridge, christchurch, halswell, hiiragi, hike, izumi, kagami, konata, lake, lucky star, new zealand, outdoors, outing, petanque, photo, quarry, real life, sunny, tsukasa, wall

Last night after dinner, me and the Hiiragi sisters went up to the port hills again, this time at night to enjoy the view. We went up just shy of sunset to set up our picnic.

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written by astrobunny \\ christchurch, city, hiiragi, kagami, night, scenery, skyline, tsukasa

I was in the cathedral square last night along with a crowd of people watching Black Velvet's New Year Concert and the countdown to this year. Of course, Kagami the stowaway followed me.

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written by astrobunny \\ 2010, andrew, black, cathedral, christchurch, end, event, festival, figma, harpman, kagami, new, square, summer, velvet, year

Today me and my friends attended a fledgling quasi-anime-oriented convention since it was the only one that had full-fledged cosplay events and big crowds and stalls with decent amount of stock with anime-related stuff. This is the third time its been held here in Christchurch. I wrote a short post on the one last year too.

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written by astrobunny \\ armaggeddon, bleach, christchurch, chrome dokuro, convention center, cosplay, expo, final fantasy, fraulein, gatling, guns, hentai, hitman reborn, kyon, manga, nagato, naruto, new zealand, nice boat, nz, pulp, rei ayanami, revoltech, sakura, star wars, toheart, vader