January 22:
We awoke to a very rainy and grey day and decided to catch up on our schooling so we spent several hours switching off between Paulie and I doing Math, Spanish, Writing, Book Reporting, Journaling and Vocabulary. Fun :D Afterward, the skies cleared a bit and we decided to head to the Auckland Art Gallery to see the contemporary exhibit of Maori Art. It is a really great looking space and like so many things here, the design and scale of the building are wonderful. It is a free museum (right in our budget). The kids are a little bored, but the conceptual art is very interesting. We tire of ,the museum after a while and head down the street to a bookstore we have seen the previous day. We find a couple of books but it turns out that they are quite pricey so we decline. We went into several shops and Sam loved the music that was playing. They all enjoyed looking in the Billabong, Rip Curl, Quicksilver, Roxy stores....too many to name. This is getting old fast. We do learn that there is going to be the Australian Open of Surfing when we are in Sydney and we will definitely be there. We quicken our pace and make it to the waterfront where we are in search of an ice cafe....everything inside the place is made of ice including the glasses that they drink from. Once we get there, we are told that there is an admission price of over $100 just to look....no thanks. We get the picture (literally) from the photos that are posted on the outside of the cafe. We are then magnetically drawn to the World Cup of Rugby store (again) and back to the game where the guys can perhaps win a rugby ball with the claw arm game.....how many rugby balls do they need??? Not too sure? As luck would have it, Hudson wins another ball and almost a third. Sam wins one as well. I pretty sure that three rugby balls is all we need, but you never know. We continue walking and make it back to Queen Street and back to our hotel. By now, we are thoroughly exhausted (again) and settle in for an evening of preparing to leave Auckland in the morning.
(more to come.............)
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