Bank holiday weekend in Auckland

Auckland day bank holiday weekend.

Being that the weather wasn't supposed to be that great, Sal & Si were both working, and Gemma (Cartwright) was on-call from home we decided to spend the weekend in and around Auckland. I finished work bang on 4pm and headed home for a quick change before meeting James in Parnell after work for a drink and a meal with James boss, Peter and his partner Ali. We spent a lovely evening in a very nice restaurant with good food and good company.

The next morning after a well sort after lie in we picked Gem (again, not myself) up from her flat in Parnell and headed North for the day up to Goat Island and Pakiri beach via the small town of Matakana. We enjoyed a glass of wine, sunbathing on the beach, followed by snorkling off Goat Island. The visabillity wasn't amazing, but still good enough to see loads of different fish (including snapper and red Moki) before heading back to Auckland for a BBQ with Gem & her new fella Byron.

We had a lovely plan of heading out to Waiheke island for a bike tour of the vineyards, however waking up to pouring rain we decided to change our plans and headed out for a good spot of crazy golf in the settings of a pirate ship (probably one of the better crazy golf course's we've sampled since being in New Zealand. 2 rounds later and Byron was the overall champion (however I can't not mention the fact that I beat James in both rounds!) After that we headed to the pub for some food before going home for a chilled evening in front of Harry Potter with regular updates on Australian open final.

Bank holiday Monday and we decided to go for a bit of tree top fun, unfortunately the weather didn't permit so we headed over to Sylvia park to watch Avatar in 3D.

Overall a quiet and relaxed bank holiday weekend.