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Arriving in New Zealand
After a crazy Friday of running errands and using the PC at Russell's office to download some open source maps of NZ to my GPS we caught our shuttle at 3pm for the airport. The Air New Zealand flight was 13 hours along (12:12 in the air and the rest mostly taxing around SFO *sigh*). The movies in the back of the seat in front of one rock - I saw The Jane Austen Book Club which was a consumate chick flick and I loved it, Ratatouille which hasn't as embarrasing as I had feared, I started Across the Universe but lost interest and went on to New Zealand travel show episodes before falling into a doze at about 10pm my time.
The plane got into Auckland at 5am Sunday morning (losing Saturday altogether from our point of view). We dropped our bags at the hotel and wandered around the harbour a bit before catching a sightseeing bus. It dropped us at the museum to catch a satellite bus to the zoo but we had an hour to kill and saw some hot house gardens. Finally we reached the Auckland Zoo. The zoo reminded us a lot of the Oakland Zoo in size and style. We didn't see many native critters as the focus seemed to be largely African. There was a rainforest area but it was inaccessible do to a concert set-up going on for music at the zoo tonight. We took a tram to the transport museum (MOTAT) and saw all sorts of things including an exihit on the history of computing that was very reminiscent of the Computer History Museum trip a few days ago. There was an area of historic Victorian buildings, a collection of historic trams and an exhibit on special effects in the movies which had a lot of blue screen set-ups which the kids were enjoying acting in front of immensely.
We got back to the hotel and checked in at 4pm. It seem much later! We are trying to be on local time. I am dragging a bit though, I admit! I assume we'll find dinner somewhere and try to stay up to a reasonable bed time. It is a theory anyway.
The plane got into Auckland at 5am Sunday morning (losing Saturday altogether from our point of view). We dropped our bags at the hotel and wandered around the harbour a bit before catching a sightseeing bus. It dropped us at the museum to catch a satellite bus to the zoo but we had an hour to kill and saw some hot house gardens. Finally we reached the Auckland Zoo. The zoo reminded us a lot of the Oakland Zoo in size and style. We didn't see many native critters as the focus seemed to be largely African. There was a rainforest area but it was inaccessible do to a concert set-up going on for music at the zoo tonight. We took a tram to the transport museum (MOTAT) and saw all sorts of things including an exihit on the history of computing that was very reminiscent of the Computer History Museum trip a few days ago. There was an area of historic Victorian buildings, a collection of historic trams and an exhibit on special effects in the movies which had a lot of blue screen set-ups which the kids were enjoying acting in front of immensely.
We got back to the hotel and checked in at 4pm. It seem much later! We are trying to be on local time. I am dragging a bit though, I admit! I assume we'll find dinner somewhere and try to stay up to a reasonable bed time. It is a theory anyway.
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