I finally made it...

I finally made it to Auckland, with only minor difficulties. I made it great from Edmonton to Denver and then from Denver to Los Angeles. But then my gut feeling came true when the dude at the Qantas wicket asked if I would like a direct flight instead. So why not. Shorter flight time and then I wouldn't have to lay over in Sydney for 11 hours by myself.

Instead, I got into Auckland at 6:00 am and had to phone the hostel to leave Necha a message to pick me up. Well the lady here did not give her the message right away so I didn't get picked up until close to 11:00 am.

Necha didn't let me sleep either. She let me have a shower and then took me up to the Harbour where we walked around and bought our Auckland Pass where we buy tickets for attractions for a low price. So we went up to the Sky Tower and took a bunch of cool pictures. It's basically the same as the Calgary Tower but the elevator up has glass doors and a glass floor. And people can jump off of it.

After that we got some Subway (yah there is KFC, McDonalds, Pizza Hut and Subway here!) and then we headed out to the Harbour to watch the sailboats.

Then we were a little bored so we took a bus out to Mission Bay where we just walked along the beach and searched for good shells. It wasn't that hot out when I got here and I wasn't smart enough to put on suntan lotion so you can guess what happened. I burnt.

Anyhoo I gotta go help Necha make supper.