Early showers gave way to a beautiful spring-like day. We caught the ferry across the harbour to Devonport - a lovely small town with victorian style wooden houses. We walked out to headland of North Shore which has a lot of history as a fort and gun emplacement protecting the harbour.
We had the best fish & chips sitting on the harbour wall at Devonport before catching the ferry back to the city. We headed for the Sky Tower (the tallest building in the southern hemisphere) and enjoyed the great views of the city including watching the mad people jumping off doing the bungy jump from the top!
Helen & Andrew decided we should celebrate our anniversary so they took a pizza from Pizza Hut back to the hotel to eat in their room and Annette & Mark had a nice quiet dinner at an Italian restaurant on the harbour before heading to a local Irish pub to have a couple of beers in front of a lovely fire and listen to some good live music.
helen says-
went to devonport which is off the coast of auckland but i is the complete opposite no high rise. we wlkd up the 2 small volcano hills at the top of which were forts which were used to protect auckland over the many years it has been there. on one of the hill there was a place that we watchd a video all about the history of auckland FUN!!!
then we went onto the skytower but b4 we went on we sat dwn 2 hav a rest where anuva video was bein playd bout the volcanoes of auckland. Dad was falling asleep it was really funny. then we finally went up the skytowr when we were up ther we were standin on the glass floors high above all the high rise buildings. we were leanin on the glass n everything.
it was myparents 20th anniversary so me n andrew got a pizza and ate them in the room while they went out for a meal. we watchd loadsa tv which was kl cos we wer gettin along as wel as we can do lol.
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