Auckland

We woke about 7. We had left the curtain open and were hoping for a lovely view of Auckland. Instead, all we could see out our window was the Hilton hotel! A bit disappointing as we had booked our complimentary balcony breakfast for this morning. Oh well…

Food came in about 7.20. And oh so much food! Pastries, bacon, tomato and cheese, quiche, fruit, smoked salmon…we ate maybe just over half. We put the Proseco in the fridge for sharing later.

Mum is better and having breakfast so we went and said hi. Then we walked around Auckland. We bought some water from the supermarket, and found that they don’t sell spirits in the supermarkets (but you can buy wine).

After some wandering, we ended up at the Skytower. It was $32 each to go up. We had a great view from the 51st floor, and watch a couple of people do the Skyjump from the top (I did this back in 2007ish). We had a great view of our ship too. We then went up to the 60th floor, with much the same view, except we could watch the Skyjumpers from above. Then it was down to the cafe on the 50th. We met up with Dad, Julie and the kids there. Mum had nearly fainted back near the ship so Dad had taken her back and joined the others.

We walked around a bit more and found a bottle shop for a couple small Captain Morgan’s. I bought a glass V bottle and drank that, and trans-bottled the Captain Morgan’s. There was some left over so I put that in a water bottle.

Back on the ship we had a coffee/hot chocolate and then found Mum on deck 14 having lunch, so she was better. We went to their room to mix drinks and then Mum, Dad, Julie, Kaoru, Ethan and I watched the sailaway from above the bridge again. It wasn’t as windy as y esterday and gave a great view of Auckland.

Kaoru and I had a laydown and then off to Vista lounge for “High seas heist”. It required work over the next few days including watching the tv shows for clues, so we didn’t take part. Then trivia, early dinner and shows.