domain-ia

Our last full day in the heart of the City of Sails started with a nice morning walk, followed by a flat white (coffee and steamed milk) and tall black (basically an Americano)… more kiwi talk for you. You’re welcome. :) From here we set out on our trek to cross things off our to do list:
1. Find a bank
2. Get a phone
3. Get a rental car for tomorrow’s car swap (which wasn’t a good idea which I’ll get to in the post on our first experiment with driving…)
4. Get to the Auckland Domain, the Central Park of Auckland, for a looksy at the museum and some outside time in one of the prettiest inner-city parks ever.

We walked along rental car ally and scoped out our future rental site - Omega rentals - more on that later. We then proceeded onto the Domaine for some hiking on Lovers' walk...



We took Lovers walk to the Duck pond where we made some friends... well, not really friends... more just like mean goose enemies...






And then we continued up to the Museum -- it's really awesome. Lots of dinosaur bones, Mauri culture and history, and tons on NZ history (like how they were involved in WWI and WWII... who knew??). Really cool to see exhibits on all their local island animals and how NZ is made up of hundreds of volcanos that could errupt at any time... ok... so maybe that part wasn't as cool as petrifying, but overall a really enlightening experience. (yep - that's me below hugging the column... I just had such a good time!)



We took the trek home and stopped by the bank and the phone place. Not necessarily a success on this day, but I'm proud to say we do indeed, on day 3, have both of these items checked off our list... Day 2 - success.