All In A Day's Work

We made it! After a 13 hour flight, we arrived in Auckland at 6:00am Tuesday morning. However, because we crossed the International Date Line, Nelly and I will never have experienced Monday, February 21, 2011. Very 'Lost' of us! We were very saddened to hear about the earthquake in Christchurch, it brought back many memories of our own earthquake in 1989. We are safe though. Auckland is not close to Christchurch.

We started the day of by checking into our hostel. Neither of us have stayed in one before and we were very happy with the one I picked. From there we took the bus into downtown Auckland and headed for the Sky Tower. It's like the Space Needle in Seattle only a lot taller.

You have a 360* view of the city.... And can bungee off of it. Yikes! We are saving that for Queenstown though.

It was about 11:00 by the time we finished that and were starving so we headed to the harbor and grabbed a burrito....from Americans. Go figure. We just landed in New Zealand and ordered Mexican food from guys from Long Beach. I was really glad we did though because they gave us an awesome tip for what to do the rest of the day.

We took a ferry from Auckland to Waiheke Island to go wine tasting. The trip over there reminded me so much of the San Francisco Bay. I felt like we were on our way to Sam's.

Leaving the harbor. Is this Oakland or Auckland?!?

Pulling into Tiburon...err I mean Waiheke.

We rented a car on the island and Nelly had his first taste of driving on the wrong side of the road. And then we both tasted some great wine. Look at these views.

Then we headed back on the ferry where we both fell asleep and were in bed without dinner before 9:00! Today we are off to get our car and then to see our friend Gay and the rest of Hopper's family.

Location:Auckland