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Sunday, October 16th, 2005

Today (Monday) I did alot of walking around. Spent about 3 hours at the New Zealand Maritime Museum. It was pretty interesting. Barbara-you would have loved it. I now know why they call Auckland, the “city of sails.”

The streets here remind me of San Francisco-very steep!! I am sure I will be in pain tomorrow…ack! I did book a tour for tomorrow afternoon so that I can see the city “properly”. All in all, there are tons of backpackers everywhere and it seems very “westernized”. I even got to see a demonstration against a McDonalds. Haha. In the cafe in the hostel, it is CNN all the time. Guess who was on? Condoleeza Rice talking about Iraq. Can’t seem to get away from that. Boo!

Hope all is well with everyone!!!

Ciao for now-

I’m in Auckland!!!

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

Yep, arrived here and what’s the first thing I do? Buy internet time. Guess I’ll have to get used to that:)

It was another long flight and crossed the Int’l Date Line so a bit strange. There were not one, not two, not even three, but countem FOUR infants on the flight. Yikes!! (Jon, I could’ve used some”assistance”on this flight:)) They even hook bassinets to the bulkhead. They all took turns crying. Good stuff!

My room at Base Backpackers is like camp. 10 bunkbeds in a small room. There were only 5 people last night. Yipee! Met one of my roomies, from England. This city seems cool. Going to book some tours or something. Sorry it’s not that exciting YET!!!!