Sight seeing

While Karen and Alastair are here we're doing our best to show off the best sights Auckland has to offer.  On Saturday we took them to our local beach and park, Stanmore Bay.

After that we hit Onewa domain, where Adam had a football match.  There's a really cool park there too.

On Monday we went down to Devonport and up to the top of Mount Victoria to get a good view of the city and Rangitoto.  I struggled to get any "normal" photos with Adam and Alastair...

The vents down to the old bunkers have been painted to look like toadstools now.

Yesterday (Tues) we went into the city to do the sky tower.  We were planning to do the sky jump but when we got there saw it cost $225 each! Plus you are just kind of lowered down by a rope, whereas we though it was a bungy.  We didn't think it was worth it.  So we went to the top of the tower and had lunch in the Orbit restaurant - it revolves around the top of the tower.

Adam managed to get Karen onto the glass floored portion :)

After we finished the sky tower we decided to do the bungy swing, since we hadn't done the sky jump. It was awesome!  And a LOT better value for money :)  The guy got us all strapped in and started getting the bungy stretched out, was just chatting away to us and all of a sudden let us go.  It came as quite a shock - you hit a speed 200km/hr in 2 secs!  Lani was filming us and I think it made her jump so much she hit the button that stopped the video, but she got it going again when we were up in the air, so we're missing just a little bit of the swing after launch, but here's the main gist:

We had quite an audience by the time we were let go.  I screamed really loudly (although I hadn't been planning to!) but we were pulled up so fast that Karen and the kids said they didn't hear a thing.  It was awesome and I'd definitely do it again.

Today we had a bit more of a relaxed day - just went down to Takapuna.  We were planning to walk to Milford along the coastal walk but got rained off, so just had some lunch at a lovely beach front cafe.  And headed home via the English shop ;) Just finished my Wispa bar - yum! And slowly working my way through a packet of Percy Pigs.