Ummm. Today is the day after the last day. Saturday 2nd!!!!!!

Saturday 2nd
Drove to the city centre and sought some gifts and looked for a Duty Free shop. None there. The whole place was almost deserted!

Sunday 3rd
From Rotorua to Auckland today staying at a privately owned “caravan park” – I use this term very loosely. It was built on the side of a steep hill with smallish sites that were quite hard to get any van into. We watched an elderly gent and his wife manoeuvre their small van and car in and out a few times before finally parking not too straight, but they’d had enough - and they did all this for only one night!  Time for drinkies, dinner and early night as we were flying out the next evening and had loads to do and see before then.

A nice stretch of road - somewhere! When is somebody going to invent a camera so you can add a

caption straight away? Oh! they have already......

Monday 4th
Our plans for today are quite simple:

1. Visit Auckland Zoo until about 2pm

2. Have a drink at the minus 5 degrees Ice Bar then head to the van drop off and airport.

Sounds all so simple until your Garmin leads the way. I swear it was set on “avoid any easy route, main road” or “take as many turns and steep roads”. Eventually we found the Zoo and lucky us, it was kids day, yep Monday is kids day.

Trundlers! Cos that's what you do when you shop!!!

ZOOTIME

Ted escaped!!!!!!!!!!

HMMMM..who is the fattest

Dancing Ostrich - needed a video

These are what happens when a government designs an animal

(stuffed) Kiwi

We were so happy to meet Christine - we have been watching her on TV for ages.

As soon as Val pulled out the camera Janey posed. She loves contact and the keepers sit and read to her. She loves to watch TV and her favourite toy is a pretend mobile phone.

These are Siamangs - Christine reared Iwani from a few weeks old till he was about 1 year.

Lion Headed Golden Tamarin

Meerkat on watch

Annd she woke up and peed and peed and peed ad infinitum

What a poser! Knows how good he looks!

These are brothers.

On behalf of our grand and great grandchildren (using money that we would normally spend on X-Mas gifts), we donated money to the Auckland Zoo's Orang Utan fund.

In 8 days this was all the distance we covered!

Oh - why no photos of the -5 Ice bar - there was nowhere to park the campervan!!!!!!!