Start of the great adventure

Day one!
We’ve arrived in Auckland! Exhausted but we’ve made it. We have got to stop drinking the night before we have to get up early and do things, so irresponsible. We had our first mishap right off the bat buying a round trip bus ticket to get back to the airport…well we didn’t need to go back to the airport since we’ll be taking off from the sky tower via a bus to Piahia. Oh well only five dollars lost. After checking into our hostel we moseyed down the street to enjoy an awesome six dollar breakfast! From there we ventured into downtown heading for the sky tower, the tallest building in the southern hemisphere. We found it after some wandering but we found it none the less. We took this really cool glass front and glass floored elevator to the first observation tower giving us a great view of the city however it paled in comparison to the view from the sky deck the high view point we could reach. We could see the entirety of Auckland from the sky deck, it offers a full 360 degree walk around to see out. It was gorgeous. On one side was the city the other looking out in the bay and beyond to the ocean. Although a bit nerve racking at times it was pretty cool to look down and see how high up we were. After the sky tower we got on a bus and headed out to a place called one tree hill. On the walked up the hill we found ourselves in a green pasture dotted with sheep and new baby lambs! They were soooo cute. I took far far too many pictures of them but as stated before, so cute! At the top of the hill we again found ourselves looking out at a spectacular sight all around. Although not as high up as the sky tower the location was beautiful and the sights were as well. After that we moved into town and got fish and chips, a deep fried hot dog and seasoned wedges for me. After lunch we went back to our room to catch a much needed nap. We woke up and went for another walk downtown just to check out what Auckland at night was like, after a short walk we decided to head back to the hostel to get our free meal which came with the room and hang out at the bar there. We went up to our room to find 8 crazy punk kids drunk as all hell inside it telling us that they over booked the room and needed to talk to us. Well we ended up getting moved to another room but they did upgrade our free meal, we got a burger, baked beans and fries, It was great! We then got a jug of Tui one of the greatest beers and played some pool, by ourselves then with some locals. We also tried our hand at come slots, which went well for Luke at first then poorly for him and poorly for me throughout, which sucked. Then it was time for bed seeing that we hadn’t got much sleep as of recent and had to switch rooms early in the morning to save a few dollars. After a short talk with our Australian roommate me and Luke crawled into bed.