All good things must eventually end and ours ended in fine style. Strap yourselves in and enjoy. It’s schadenfreude time!!
Category: 2006 US Wedding Trip
Day 35: With Aeron (pronounced Erin) around Auckland
Weather:Â cool and mostly sunny, with a few brief, gentle showers Highlight of the day:Â Â Seeing Aeron, seeing Shai, Devonport, beach, Thai food!
Day 34: Auckland
Weather:Â cool and mostly sunny, with well behaved clouds that only rained when we were inside Highlight of the day:Â Walking around the streets and parks of Auckland
Day 33: The Day that Never Was (because of the int'l date line)
Move along, nothing to see here. You all know about long air flights: food (quite good on this occasion), wine (excellent NZ vintages), movies (a trite NZ movie called Number 2 then Scott watched a much better Hollywood effort called…
Day 32: Shop til you drop then fly home (or to New Zealand)
Our last day in the USA. Only one last thing we need to do – shop.
Day 31: Monterey Bay Aquarium
Woke at Laurence & Karen’s (not very surprising, as we‘d had a lovely evening and gone to sleep there!), had excellent coffee and yummy almond bear claws for breakfast, said our thank yous and goodbyes, took photographs of our hosts…
Day 30: Elkhorn Slough – Karen & Lawrence’s for dinner
A fun day! Knowing that so far I had not seen an otter despite looking for one at Point Lobos, Monterey, and Santa Cruz, Erik proposed we go kayaking at Elkhorn Slough (pronounced slew).Â
Day 29: Californian Party Aftermath
This day was spent putting the balance of the universe to rights (ie. too much fun one day must be followed by not so much fun the next).Â
Day 27: Niscene Marks, The Bagelry, and Cultural Exchanges Amongst the Vines
We went ‘over the hill’ to go for a walk in the redwoods. It took a while to find Niscene Marks State Park, despite being near an area Disa used to hang out in. We went for a lovely walk,…
Day 26: The Tales of the City walk
We left Disa’s parents’ house mid-morning – destination: San Francisco to do the Tales of the City walk. Scott & I are fans of the Tales of the City books written by Armistead Maupin and set in San Francisco. Disa…