Jucy's office was a walking distance from downtown so we left the car and went looking for the hotel. Luckily it turned out that we have reserved a hotel right on the busiest street in Auckland - Queens Blvd. May be it is not that crazy usually but it was 'boxing day' or the day after Christmas when all stores have sales and all Chinese tourists and locals have decided to buy whatever they see. Even in front of the most expensive brands like Prada or Boss there were queues with people wanting to go in the store. I made a mistake to check a boot in UGG and one chinese girl literally took it from my hands and this put the official end of our shopping. After all on the next day it looked quite calm on the street so we decided to check what was all that fuzz about. The only thing left in the stores were the labels with the prices everything else was totally gone. So we just wandered around the streets enjoying the small cafes and checking out the city sights.
In general Auckland reminded us for the States as everything looked so alike and we were not that impressed to be honest. They have great outdoor parks but surprisingly they were totally empty. The explanation we got was that the people there like to sunbathe on the beach instead of walk in the park. We went to Auckland's oldest park where they have awesome free botanical garden with amazing flowers and the biggest water lilies i have ever seen
After we checked the parks it was time for the city itself. Frankly the harbor with the amazing yachts was the most impressive part and it made me dream of having a boat for me to sail all over the world. But it was time for me to wake up as it was BBQ time with very interesting company - the invite came from Rudy's co-worker who is Korean and the reason for organizing the dinner is to say Bye to us as we were leaving on the next day and welcome some German guys that had just arrived. The whole event is hosted in the flat in a girl from New Zealand with the best view ever. In order to get there we took a ferry from the harbor in downtown and 10 min later we were on the other side. The neighborhood is really nice with view towards Auckland's skyline and as they said with the best beaches in the city - well the last we take for granted as there was no time to check for ourselves :) We had a lot of fun on the BBQ, had some food, some drinks and unfortunately had to catch the last ferry back as our flight home was early next monring. After all, it was time to say Goodbye to Kiwi land :)
I was puzzled what that was..
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