Last day with the Hines (again!).

After a restless night sleep we all met at 8.30am in the cafe downstairs. Considering we were high up you could hear everything! Just glad we’re only here for 2 nights!!

We had a great breakfast and after gathering our rain macs we walked out to find the Saturday Craft Market. We walked to where it used to be only to find a construction site. After speaking to a local we walked back to where we started only to find the market. It was overlooked by the Skytower. There was some lovely stuff, we managed to start our souvenir shopping.

After that we bought some picnic stuff and caught the bus to Mission Bay, We got off the bus at Kelly Tauntons to walk the short way to the Michael Joseph Savage Memorial. It wasn’t as soon as the previous day but still it was dry. We sat and watched the world go by for a while before tucking into our picnic.

We had a walk down to Mission Bay and walked along by the beach and back up by the shops. It’s quite small but very expensive! We did call in for a Belgian Beer but soon left when it was $13.50 a beer!!

We caught the bus back down to Downtown along with either a “Market Boy” gang member/terrorist or the village idiot. After a very scary/intense/terrifying trip we got off at the Britomart Travel Centre and enjoyed a walk around the Wharfside. We stopped off for a coffee and then walked back to the craft market.

Me and Ben went to book the shuttle and camper for the next morning and left Mum and Dad.

We met up again at 6pm for our last meal (we’ve already had 2 last meals!!). We met in the lobby of the hotel and decided to walk down by the harbour side. We all chose the Indian for tea, we’d started with one in Auckland and were now finishing with one.

It was really nice and we called into the city convenience next door for our chocolate fix. It was still a bit early so we called into a pub for a pint. We got back to the hotel around 9ish and then called it a night.

Me and Ben went back to get some photo’s of the Skytower lit up at night. After watching the telly for a bit it was a very restless night ...... so noisy!!