Abe and Erin’s travels

Abe posting:

Our last offical day in Auckland.  Erin and I went on a mad hunt for stone necklaces.  We had to run 2 miles up to the museum to get the best style for her.  Carrie was kind enough to go back to the meuseum with Erin and give the “girl/female” persepctive… I guess that my opinion doesne’t hold much weight unless I take a long time to form it.

After stuff was purchased we reconnected with the Dunns and made our way to the Sky tower to meet up with Amit, Rashmi, Greg, and Jeremy. 

Carrrie, Christrian, Erin, and I stopped off at the Occidental for some tastey beers.  I had the massive “dong” with mashed potatoes!

  Nice thumbs up by Christrian!

On the way to the dinner we were cought up by this random farris wheel that we took photos of.

    We had to split fast because Carrie set off the alarm by crossing the magical barrier – he he.

 

Here are some shots out of the sky tower and some shots through the see through glass – pretty cool.

    

Rashmi convinced Amitt to jump on the glass with her:

Kristin and Jen met up with us for a couple of minutes for a mini pharmacy reunion:

We then made our way to the Loaded Hog and enjoyed some more tasty beers…Greg and Carrie splurged and bought the “beer experience.”  Basically you take a bunch of beer to your table and pour your own. 

  It was pretty funny: the guy in this picture was completely wasted – he followed Greg from the bar and proceeded to tell us how to drink the beer from this giant bong, “HIT IT!” he kept saying while trying to stay standing.  We were all cracking up.  He then grabbed Greg and held him in a very long manly embrace – Look at the fear in Greg’s eyes:

  We kind of ignored the drunk guy and made our way to minus 5.

   ……it was COOOL!  They built this bar out of ice (just like the sculptures in the Dallas exhibit, Steve and Brenda).  They serve drinks out of ice glasses (this can be tricky, Christian sprung a leak in his and had to drink real fast – poor guy).  We hung out for about 25min and shot photos – and cooled off.

Thursday was another travel day for us – Next stop Wellington.

Erin writing – Today we went to Devonport.  It is a quaint town that is located on a peninsula.  It takes about 12 minutes to get there, of course, by ferry.  We bought a tour of the peninsula which was very nice because our guide told us all about the history of the town.  They have two inactive volcanoes that we climbed up and took pictures as well as additional guns to protect themselves.  We had lunch at Manuka – an awesome restaurant with great pizza and huge green lipped mussels.  Windows were open on all sides, allowing us to enjoy the breeze.  We got some chocolate from a local store and went to a vegetable and fruit market.  Thus far, my favorite drink is an all natural ALOE drink.  This sounds very strange but it is sweet and tasty!  We went back on the ferry and went to the viaduct and had dinner at a place called degree.  Abe and I had mussels again and also ordered lamb kabobs!  They were great, the company was great, and the views of the harbor were fantastic!

Erin Writing - Monday was fun.  I made Abe go running for 1:45minutes.  While he was complaining before we went, he says he was happy that he had run because of the cool things he saw (my plan all along!).  ... [Continue reading this entry]

Erin writing - We took a ferry to Waiheke Island.  It took about 35 minutes, was overcast and raining, and was beautiful!  It turns out that some N.Z.er's live on other islands, or peninsulas, and commute to Auckland to work.  ... [Continue reading this entry]

As mentioned earlier - the flight was pretty uneventful - Erin took up our row of 3 seats:   Which was ok because I got to hang with Carrie and Christrian [Continue reading this entry]

We made it!  The trip was very pleasant - Erin only lost it (due to a absolute fear of flying) 2-3 times.  We are pretty tired so we will post more details tomorrow!