EVENT: Day 2 - New Zealand

Day 2 in Auckland, we decided to take the boat out to Waiheke Island. I knew nothing about what was there. I literally only knew that Gaia (from The Almighty Johnsons) came from there. Shame, I know. But it was a nice excuse to go on the boat and see the island. It was really pretty and we had an amazing breakfast! I sadly can't remember the name of the place - and when I look it up on google maps, all it shows is that a place called Lucky Pig used to be there in 2010. So whatever the place is called now, go there because it was amazing and the people working there were really really nice!

We spent the day on the island, the beach and at the wineries before heading back to Auckland that night to see the musical Guys and Dolls at the Q Theatre :) 

EVENT: Day 1 - New Zealand

So for those of you who don't know - for my birthday last November, I went to New Zealand for two weeks to celebrate. I always like doing something I've never done before to mark the occasion - so this year, it was to visit New Zealand, where I'd never been before.

I'm going to document all my friend and I did over the two weeks. But for now, this is day #1.

We flew out early at night and arrived in Auckland around 5-6am. We couldn't check in, but we left our bags with the hotel and walked around a bit before having our skyjump/skywalk appointments in the afternoon. I'm not going to go into too much details, except to say that we were 192m off the ground - to give you some perspective, you can see the red target below my feet in the photo above. We jumped from around about where I am standing above to that target below. It was terrifying!

More under the cut!