Our travels continue - Auckland Museum

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Today we got up and headed up the hill to a cafe with free wifi and checked our email and ate breakfast. Then we got to the sightseeing bus and headed out to the Auckland Museum. Russell rememebers visiting this museum on his 1979 visit. We saw the Maori "cultural experience" which is half an hour of chanting and dancing. We viewed the Maori galleries and looked at some of the NZ fashion area which had some fun garb from the 1960's including a dress made of orange feathers. I hope my picture of it comes out! And a dress with that famous Aleister Crowley portrait on it. Really I can't imagine what we were thinking wearing pink, orange, lime green & yellow clothes in those days. There was a pantsuit that brought it back very strongly.

We headed back to town and wandered a bit and found a cache and bought some groceries. Our hotel room has one of those washer/dryer things so we are doing a spot of laundry and vegging a little before dinner. Tonight we're having dinner with taltosdama at the Orbit Restaurant in the Sky Tower that looms over Auckland. It has been rainy and overcast all day so I don't expect the views will be all that they might be. Russell would love to see a good sunset from there. We shall see!