I hope that all of you had a great thanksgiving. We had a great thanksgiving day at Muriwai beach, as mentioned in my previous post. Also in my previous post I mentioned that the 28th was a rainy day and that we were headed for the Auckland museum. When we went to get into the rental car we discovered that it had been broken into. (Three cars were broken into along the street.) We were very lucky as the only thing of any value that we had left in the car was our GPS and the thieves had simply tossed it out onto the front lawn. Luckily, even with the rain it was in perfect condition, so we lost nothing. It did however put the squash on our museum visit, as it took the better part of the day to file a police report and get a replacement car. The police were very nice but the people at the rental car company, Jucy were the pits. I think it may be the worst customer service I have ever experienced. They were completely indifferent to our situation and offered NO help. Oh well we did get a better replacement car.
Armed with our new car we did have time to find a scuba shop and get my backup regulator fixed. It was acting up while we were in Fiji.
Yesterday the 29th we successful in visiting the Auckland museum. A nice eclectic museum. There was a Maori section, a WWII section, a natural history section, a volcano section and a “Wearableart” exhibit. (http://worldofwearableart.com) Check it out. It was fun and entertaining.
We had our lunch on the museum lawn that looked out over a large cricket club. So Barb and I watched 30 minutes of cricket while we ate our lunches. We have NO idea what those people were doing down there. 🙂 I think we need some help from an expert.
Today is Sunday and we drove to a large farmers/flee market and picked up some great fruits and vegetables or vege as they call them here.
Spence
Our broken into rental car.
Cricket. If someone can explain what these people are doing I would greatly appreciated it.
Hello down there!
So sorry about the car break-in. I’m glad nothing valuable was taken, but it still just makes one feel “violated”, doesn’t it? Hopefully that will be the only mishap for a long time to come.
My father has tried to explain cricket to us dozens of times, and I STILL don’t get it. I think it’s a ploy by the British to make us all feel stupid – really there ARE no rules – they just make up play as they go along.
I checked out the “wearable art” page – NOT what I was expecting!! I think I’m going to ask for one of the “bizzare bras” for Christmas. 🙂 HA. That must have been a hoot to wander through!
The cul de sac is looking quite festive – the nice weather last weekend allowed for a lot of light hanging, and it’s starting to really feel like Christmas. I can’t believe it’s December 1st. The best news is that we bought a new vacuum cleaner today (cyber Monday and all) Life is terribly exciting around here!
Hi Spence and Barb,
So glad to hear that you are now in NZ and enjoying yourselves. The diving looks like a blast! All’s well here. As long as Hannah keeps inviting us to the massive house parties, mum’s the word on our end. Crazy temperature swings here up and down and up and down. Great skiing with 30″ in 4 days. Sweet. Miss you! Your trip sounds great.
Cheers,
Chuck & MJ
Just wait until I get my hands on Hannah! 🙂 We heard about all the snow the mountains have been getting. Barb signed up for the on-line Daily Camera and has been reading about the snow and feeling envious. Maybe we can find a little snow for her in the mountains on the south island where we head on the 9th of Dec.
Hi to all.
Spence & Barb