We decided to discover the bus today There is a loop bus that took us downtown to the sky tower. You could spend $225 to bungee jump off the tower, somewhat less to be tethered and walk on the sky platform or spend $28 to go to the observation deck with floor to ceiling windows, the latter is what Mike did. While he was doing that, I perused the gift shop on the ground floor!
As we left the building we saw one person land after jumping from above. We waited to see the next person come down. You jump over the side and are suspended for several moments before you free fall down to the bottom. The gal coming over the side screamed the whole way down. She landed and jumped up as tho nothing bothered her.
We then walked down to the yacht basin and decided that there were wonderful restaurants here but way too expensive for lunch, so ended up at the food court in a nearby mall.
Back on the loop bus, the long way around the city to the Auckland Museum. The museum has a nice collection of clothing in exhibits of design and decorative arts organized by decades. They also have a great Maori collection and a third floor that is dedicated to WWII, which we did not have the time to view.
A note about the bus. As each person got off the bus, they thanked the bus driver.
At dinner we had a nice server who was from Brazil. He came here to learn English and stayed on, but is hoping to move to Vancouver. New Zealand has many young people come here to learn English and one of the consequences of the earthquake in Christchurch is the concern about coming to this country to study English. Quite a few Japanese students died in the quake in Christchurch.
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