Ki Ora, Brilliant, Cheers!
Well, did a lot of sightseeing today and took an afternoon tour. It included the Auckland Museum, Mt. Eden, various neighborhoods, and the Sky Tower. It is the tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere. It was very similar to the CN Tower in Canda. The have skyjumping as well. I took a photo of some nut that was doing it while I was there. Basically, she bungy jumped off the tower. Yeah, okay. I am not even going to lie and say I did it…haha.
The Sky Tower in the distance:
The Sky Tower at night on an angle:
A long way from home at the Sky Tower:
I got to talking to the cute 32-year old tour guide and come to find out he used to work for Contiki in Europe. He was really good friends with my tour guide, Tim. Too funny. He was telling me they are very desperate for workers – teachers, police etc. They actually had to go to the UK and recruit 72 people to come work in NZ. Interesting. Apparently, it is like everywhere else-the jobs don’t pay enough for one to live there.
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October 18th, 2005 at 8:33 am
Good On Ya Girl!
Just got caught up on your adventure. Sounds pretty awesome so far. Don’t forget I will want to know favorites when you get back, like favorite wine, food, entire meal, restaurant, sight, person…etc..etc…etc! Have fun and I miss you.
Barbie
October 18th, 2005 at 8:06 pm
Hi Kristen
Your holiday sounds great so far I wish Eloise and I could be in your shoes ( O sorry if you dont remmember we were the couple on the contiki tour last year we were from south africa ) any way injoy the trip and please send some photo’s if you can for us poor buggers sitting at work at 2am in the morning
cheers
Ryan
October 19th, 2005 at 1:12 am
Barbie-It has been awesome so far!
Ryan-Of course I remember you bloody South Africans!!! I will try to upload some pictures soon!! Tell Eloise I said hello-hope she is feeling good!