Thursday, April 22, 2010

Dec 23, 2009, Auckland, New Zealand

Today we got up early again, had breakfast in the hotel and headed out to catch the Intercity bus. It looks like rain today, but we certainly hope that it does hold off. Today we are heading out to Rainbow’s End. This is an amusement park way on the outskirts of the city, so should be interesting. We jumped on the bus and took a good 45 min bus ride to Manakau City. It was like another bus tour this time without the commentary. Sure hope we find the right bus back home. The bus dropped us off at the Westfield shopping mall and we had to walk about a block over to the park. It opened at 10:00 am and we got there at about 5 min till. Once inside we quickly got around to all the rides. There was hardly anyone there so it was pretty easy. Of course, it was Peggy, me, and about 150 kids. We held our own though… The 3D Dinosaur Motion Master, the swinging pirate ship, 18 story fear fall, roller coaster, log flume, the Invader, go karts, and finally 12 hole golf. We walked back over to the mall and walked around for a while. All the stores, malls, and more are jammed packed. Everyone with their last minute Christmas buys. Crazy. Either way we still can’t afford anything so it doesn’t matter. We grabbed some food at the food court, then tried to figure out which bus to get back to the city center. Finally we just ended up grabbing any old bus and it took us about an hour and a half to get back. We look at it as another tour of the country side. LOL…Got back, finally, and found a little place for pizza. Then back to the hotel. Tomorrow is our last day, so we’ll probably use up our bus pass, and do the sky tower. I think we might even head out of town again to the big outlet mall. WE’ll see. We need time to pack and figure out how to get to the airport. Guess I’ll work on that a little tonight.


. HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!

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