New Zealand ! - Auckland :)

So after settling in in our hostel and checking out the facilities we decided a nap was the only options as we could not keep our eyes open! They say sleeping is so bad for jet lag but when your so tired you just don't care! We ended up sleeping for 6 hours! We got up (dragged ourselves up!) and went out to find ourselves some dinner we walked up and down ponsonby road and decided on a small bar, we ordered far to much food ! And couldn't eat it all, and then went back and tried to sleep but could not sleep until 3 am :( defo should not have had that 6 hour nap!

We woke at around 10am and decided that we would go find breakfast/lunch as by this time it was 12 midday! We found a lovely bakery on the ponsonby road got a sandwich and cakey and the set off for a walk into the city :) it was around a 25minutes walk, and just entering into town there was a Denny's !   A fave of mine from USA! We. Would defo be eating there! We decided to go up the sky tower today, it was a lovely sunny day and the views would be great :) and they were.......

 

.....we then got to stand over a glass platform which was pretty scary it was a long way down! 

The rest of the afternoon was spent wondering around town, tea in the park and then dinner in Denny's :) a good day :) ....

We decided the next day we would wander further into ponsonby to find a postoffice to send some card etc we had to send, and came across a lovely little selection of ships and this small town had a love feel to it I defo could imagine myself living here :) we got the bus down to the town to find a hire car company, we went in few different ones got a few quotes! And as always went back to the first one! Like everyone does! We got this old Nissan sunny automatic! Luke wasn't to impressed he like quality and new things! But as it happens it was a good little car and we quite enjoyed having it, Luke got the hang of driving it and driving it around auckland! 

We spent two days driving around going to various volcanos, view points, a shopping outlet and over to devonport a couple of times, we had some fun. We also spent some time driving around checking out the scenary! 

Mount Eden...

 

......our bat Mobil ! This is what I renamed the car!

One tree hill.....

 

 The car that I thought was ours that I filmed and took lots of pics of! Which we could not stop laughing about ! What a blonde! 

We spent bonfire evening at devonport island over looking the city's skyline, as we were told there would be fireworks from the sky tower, we got takeaway dominos which was super cheap ! And sat in the car to watch them, the only trouble was there was a big storm over us and it was chucking it Down, so we didn't see many fireworks :( we saw a. Few but none from the sky tower :( we stayed for a while then decided to go back for the night. The second time we went to devonport was an afternoon it was sunny on the way over so we got good views from the Auckland bridge :) but then on the way to where we were going it started to rain again :( we got to the lookout points we were at at bonfire night but the rain was so bad that you could barely see the skyline, we retreated into a New Zealand navy museum which was actually really interesting :) then we had a run to the car because it was chucking it down :( after having fun in the car we had to take it back and get the bus back to the hostel! 

 

 

 

......we really enjoyed auckland it was so different to the other cities we had been in, not busy, everyone is laid back :) just what we needed after the rush of asia, lovely and calm and right up our street :)