We just blasted through town yesterday heading out to camp for the night. Traffic in town was awful – turns out the NZ Open is here this weekend. Ack! We decide we shouldn’t completely skip town and Sunday morning might be a little quieter so we run in for a few hours and check it out this morning. First stop “Cookie Time” home of the Cookie Muncher who looks much like a red Cookie Monster. Kent orders “best of both worlds” a scoop of ice cream of his choice plus a scoop of cookie dough of his choice. He is in seventh heaven with a dish of salted caramel ice cream and chocolate chip cookie dough. I sampled, it is pretty spectacular. I go for a couple warm from the oven cookies, white chocolate macadamia and chocolate chip. Very well done, Cookie Time. I must admit that I wasn’t overly impressed with their packaged cookies from the grocery store but fresh from the shop I don’t know if I have had any better – other than homemade of course.
We stroll to the water front and in just a few blocks I find Patagonia Chocolates – one of those must try places but we keep it light, one afghan cookie which is claimed to be a NZ favorite. It is a crunchie chocolate cookie with choc icing and walnuts. Ok, now I have tried it but for me it is nothing to write home about.
Got my souvenir fix, T shirts. We pick up a few groceries – Otago Pinot Noir, pinot gris, a local Whittaker milk chocolate bar, and bread. You know, the essentials.