Michael had to rush off this afternoon to a meeting so lunch was outside on the deck just Marie and Chaggie. This afternoon we planned to go and have a walk up to Auckland Museum and War Memorial not too far from Michael and Marie's home in Newmarket. After more blogging we got going at 15:30.The 1st floor was on Maori culture and history with parts on school in the past etc. The 2nd floor had parts on the Volcano and Earthquake tragedies New Zealand have been victims to as well as other disasters such as the Tangiwai Train Disaster. There were parts on land creatures and sea creatures, one of our favorite parts was the weird things room with all sorts of creepy crawlies including locusts, weta and crickets.
The Finding Nemo characters were all spotted too.
The floor we had the least time on due to the Museum soon closing was unfortunately one Chaggie would have loved to have spent more time on. War history and the war memorial. Auckland Memorial has a Spitfire in it's collection on show.
We got back at around 18:00ish, Chino walked into town and posted a letter to Murray Stagg, the cousin of Phill who we stayed with in Tauranga. This letter included his garage door key on, something Chaggie have been meaning to post back for a while. Anyway luckily that finally got done, Chino bought some bread also, something we've been using a lot of at Michael and Marie's.This evening we had a roast chicken, Chino managed to catch up on the blog to our current day, pictures all uploaded too, a major relief to be done before our trip back home. Dinner was delicious, a full roast chicken with all the trimmings, will be our Kiwi Roast for a long time now.
We chilled out this evening, Chino watched the I.T Crowd, Staggie caught up with friends and carried on with his managing for Newcastle on FM. Tomorrow is our last full day in New Zealand, it certainly crept up on us.
Chaggie x
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