Auckland

February 1
Auckland

There’s probably not much to say about today in Auckland, aside from that I walked around sporting a brand new sun burn that I was doing my best to keep out of the sun. Also, this meant my first stop in Auckland was to a supermarket where I could pick up some essentials, like sunscreen, so that I can go back to enjoying New Zealand. I picked up what I needed and headed out to find the next most important item, an internet connection.
A god distance of walking later, I came across a decent café with internet, sat down, and made a Skype phone call home. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Skype, it is an internet calling service, wherein it’s free to join, you can call any phone number, and it costs about 2 cents a minute to call the states. In about 50 minutes of talking with the complete other side of the planet, I spent less than a dollar – nice. So that was my other big event.
From there on out, I just walked around looking at the city. There is a large space needle-ish building in Auckland that caught my attention. For a fee, you could either jump off of it, walk around a thin catwalk outside of it, or both. I figure I’d be very much into the both option. Except from talking to friends, I found out the jump isn’t bungee, but some controlled decent where you “fall” hanging from a wire. I don’t know that I’m as excited anymore, but we’ll see what I decide to do next time I’m in town.
I then returned to the ship and spent the rest of the day hanging out doing whatever. Thanks!