Auckland - February 5-7

Auckland, February 5-7

I love Auckland--- It's such a great city to visit by ship as the ships dock right at the heart of the city. You just walk off the ship, cross the street and you are in the city. It is a great mix of historic buildings and new ones like the shot, at the bottom of this post, of the waterfront taken from our balcony.

Yesterday we just walked around the city for a few hours and didn't do anything special. We walked over to the sky tower, but didn't go up since we had done it last time. After about three hours we headed back downhill to the ship. My ankle held up remarkably well!

This morning we were going to go to the Kelly Tarlton Aquarium but exchanging money took considerably longer than we had figured and we missed the free transport bus – the next one wouldn't come for an hour and when we figured our time we wouldn't have but a couple hours at the aquarium because we have an early 'all aboard' this afternoon so we went to the city center shopping center and picked up a few things we needed (potato chips were at the top of my list).

We've had beautiful weather here, but the clouds are building up right now so we may get rain this afternoon. Holland America is requiring all passengers to attend the emergency drill this afternoon instead of just the new people. I've heard that we had 84 that got off and about 100 new passengers get on here.