Auckland NZ On a Tuesday in October !!!
This place is frantic with mobs of school kids on holidays, and masses of people here for the World Cup, and 2000 people off a cruise ship, not my cup of tea at all....we started at the Post Office to send our excess baggage home, back to the ship to collect the "baggage" back to the post office to send it off and then to the ANZ bank for a bit of an update on this fiasco with our money, as the bank have not made any form of contact with us at all ! Great work ANZ...so it took them 12 days from when we lodged the dispute form to when they put it over to the fraud squad, and will be maybe another 3 to 5 weeks till we get a reply, meanwhile we wait ...!!!! Thanks to the girl at the ANZ in Auckland, she was blown away by our story, and unlike the contacts in Australia, she was very sympathetic.
We then returned our empty case back to the ship and went off to explore, we walked miles and miles and miles and saw some really awesome "super Yachts" moored here, some people have WAY too much money or maybe jealousy is a monster !!! I tried loads of times to connect with free wifi, but to no avail, so back to the ship to dump the computers, and off to play again !
Kelly and Dan invited us to the Irish Pub so we met up with them and Shazza & Paul, the drink prices were over the top so we had a quick drink with them and headed off to a pub that had happy hour and half the price of the Irish Pub, we enjoyed a couple of drinks, got a meat pie for Kelly & Dan, (their first as they are Yankies) and carried on having a fun time.
Back home to have a rest...yeah right !!! No we met in the Schooner bar and had a bit of a night with our mates, had a chat to mum, found out our baby is fine, and spoilt as ever, and home after dark, as our ship was moving "camp"
There has been a catastophic oil spill near here, cut a long story short, we had to move to be able to take on fuel to get us home...Shazza had visions of me wandering back to the wharf and looking up and saying "bullsh*t, where is our ship gone?" but I beat the system, I got home before the big move ~!!!
Another fantastic day, sadly we are running out of this most amazing journey days, but I think I need the rest, and the refueling of the bank account !
Cheers till next time ...take care xxxxxxxxxxx
G'day, mate! Thanks for the updates. It's good to hear that we may be gone but not forgotten. We would have loved to have been up onstage with the Rascals. You know how shy Norm is! LOL
ReplyDeleteSaw the orthopedic doctor today and there's not serious damage to the knee and no need for surgery. I do need to go back to physical therapy, though.
Best, Frank and Norm, too.
Finally up and able to reply mate, thanks so much, it means the world xx cheers and come on over for a bbq...xxxxx
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