Hello from Auckland!
Our group has spent the past three days in Auckland New Zealand which has been pretty sweet. It is a drastic change from the village life we are used to but everyone is adjusting and having loads of fun.
There are so many things to do in Auckland and as a group we took advantage of this.
On Friday a group of us (Me, Lucy, Kelsey, Hannah, David and Ryan) headed over to Victoria street after walking around the city for a while to go to the Sky Tower. The Sky Tower in Auckland is the largest structure in the Southern Hemisphere and we got to climb up to 220m to get a panoramic view of the city. There were even glass panels replacing some of the floor which allowed you to feel like you were walking on air…it was pretty scary. We had a great view of the city and the surrounding islands.
After that the same group minus Kelsey decided to take a shark bus (yes it was a bus that looked like a shark how cool) to Kelly Tarltons Underwater Aquarium where we unleashed our inner five year olds. It seemed like everyones favorite part of Underwater World was our Snowcat tour through the penguin area or walking through the shark tunnels.
While we were off being tourists the rest of the group was navigating their way through the city. Kareem and Dylan did some shopping, while Gordon and Willem were checking out some nice local resturants, Emily tried to tour through as much of the city as possible and take in the great sights and Cliff and Karen took some time to climb a local mountain.
Last night we joined up again as a big family for some group bonding at a bowling alley. While we were waiting for our lanes we found a sweet invention…bumper car laser tag! The teams were Me and Emily vs. David and Gordon vs. Ryan and Willem, it was an awesome six minutes of fun. Once we hit the lanes bowling shoes laced up and nicknames entered into the monitor we bowled all night. Gordon was the king of the group beating us all with no one close behind.
After bowling we split up into two groups to get our last tastes of Auckland. Half of the group danced the night away while the other half went on a search for ice cream after realizing all of the movie theatres were closed at 10.
We had a great three days in Auckland and we are all anxiously awaiting our next step in our journey WWOOFing aka working on an organic cattle farm, we are all looking foreword to it.
Cheers from Auckland,
Christine Natoli
