baby's day out.

Since we went to sleep at about 6:30 pm the night before, we woke up quite early (8:00 AM). Not many people were awake yet, and the other 4 people in our room were still fast asleep. We still had to get ourself something to eat for breakfast but were quite sure the store wasn't open yet, so we had to find some other way to pass the time. This quickly lead us back to our long-time love, the computer. After wandering the internet for a bit, jasper fired up Skype and wouldn't you know it, his brother was on. After saying hi, his mom and dad quickly logged on as well. We talked to them for a short while before our credit ran out.
By this time the stores had opened and we went and got ourselves some bread and nutella for breakfast. During breakfast Jasper had the bright idea to save up some bread and save it for lunch, we were both surprised either of us would actually think of something like.

We decided to head into town and visit some of the parks, as they were pretty close to the city center. The first park was quite small and nothing too special. Next to (and I think also inside) this park was Auckland University. It seems Auckland University is spread pretty much throughout the city as we ran into many buildings that seemed to be part of it.
The 2nd park (Auckland domain) was quite large and had various things to see in it, including: plants, grass and also people. Also inside was Auckland museum, with 3 different sections, Maori stuff, National history and one about the various wars NZ was in. Even though we went into a museum volountarily, we still seemed to be getting those tired legs we always get when visiting museums. We bravely marched on though and managed to see pretty much all there was to see. Afterwards we headed back to the hotel to pick up jaspers camera (he forgot to bring it with him), and then to Sky Tower. Sky Tower is basically a big tower in the middle of the city, it had some shops and stuff on the ground floor but our main reason for visiting was the view. You could also do a sort of base jump, but we decided not to waste our money on that. The view was quite nice and we saw some places we could visit some other day (Mt. Eden, One tree hill among others).

Afterwards we went to the store to see if we could get ourselves some food for the night. However the store didn't seem to be selling any meat and hardly any vegetables, so we settled on microwave pasta (it was "The Healthy Choice" though, so it was alright). We decided we were going to find a bigger supermarket tomorrow so that we could actually cook some decent food.

I also tried uploading my pictures, and if I did everything correctly you should be able to see them if you click this link:
http://s713.photobucket.com/albums/ww138/lingonlas/NZ%207%20Oktober/