alright, so i did decide to be a partial zombie and try to stay awake for over 24hours so that when i did sleep, it would hopefully be at a normal time for the new local. Instead of sleeping, my new roommate and I went on an epic exploration of Auckland, trying to navigate to the base of the Sky Tower. Although the Sky Tower looms permenately in the skyline of downtown Auckland, it proved very difficult for us to find. Armed with our little photo copied map and shear exhaustion, our quest for the base was stopped by
1) an oddly placed hospital and what seemd like an eternity spent trying to get out of the labrinth that was the cancer and bloodwork parking lot,
2) a series of inconveniently walls too high to scale
3) the fact that some roads disapear and lead into a giant church
4) not all of the streets have street names displayed
But, against all odds, we made it to the bottom of the Sky Tower, watched two people jump off it, and found the university. Then we came back to a dinner of squid rings. Good first day.
Squid rings?!? God yes. That sounds divine.
ReplyDeleteSky Tower reminds me of (in some ways) of the Space Needle in Seattle. It's gawddamn near impossible to find until you are right underneath it.
Glad you are exploring the terrain!