I have finally got the photos from our trip to Auckland up on the computer.  There are not as many of bands as I would like, mainly as it was either too dark or we were dancing too much.  While we were there I turned 25 which we celebrated by going into Auckland and watching Open Season in 3D on the Imax screen.  Mr Pigalina and I then had tea together and the insistance of Libby and Shaun and then we met up for pool, pinball and boogieing (6 songs for $2 on the video jukebox!) before heading back to our motel.  This trip took about 3 hours as we accidentally drove in a giant circle but it was one of the most entertaining car journeys I have been on.  We bought a chocolately birthday cake at about 1am, it was great.  Alas we had to be up for 5.15am so we were a bit worse for wear the next day.  As I sat half awake on the sofa the next day, feeling ill from a lingering snot riddled head cold and lack of sleep, Mr Pigalina's mum arrived and asked me if I was hungover.  How rude!  I was the model of sobriety (apart from 3 drinks on my birthday) all weekend despite my appearance in a lot of the photos.  It is amazing how a bit of humidity can play havoc with your hair. 

(I will put a few photos here, the rest will be in my album called "Big Day Out"):

Muse were fantastic as expected, The Streets were a suprise, they were awesome!  It was so much fun jumping about in a boiling hot tent with thousands of other people while they were playing.  There were so many fantastic outfits that I wish I had taken more photos.  Shaun and Mr Pigalina even saw an emo girl wearing a gasmask.  I alas was in the t-shirt queue and missed it.  I don't care who is playing next year I want to go, it was a big AWESOME day out.  A great weekend all round actually.