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March 21, 2006
Sweetazz Bro!
So it's been a while since I've posted and a lot has happened. I'll try and recount the first week I spent in Auckland. Keep in mind that I'm writing this on the 22nd about events that transpired starting on Mar 10th.
I got off the plane at 1:00am local time and was met by Sarge and Haley who promptly handed me a beer. They then informed me that Jay was arriving 4h later and since we were there anyways (and since I had some nice duty free liquour) we should just hang out in the airport til Jay landed. This ended up getting a little messy as killing 4h in an airport is quite boring. We all got caught up on what we'd been up to lately and then murdered a couple McD's breakfasts when the place opened at 4:30am. Jay lands, gets off the plane and is sort of wandering aimlessly out of the gate (as he's trying to figure out how to orientate himself in a city with just Sarge's address) when we pounced and surprised him. Needless to say some more booze was drank and the rest is sort of a blur with a bottle of Crown Royal (love the taste of home) being attacked sans mix in the taxi to the hostel.
The next couple of days were equally crazy with no real tourist like activities other than acquanting ourselves with the local pubs. We stayed at the ACB (Auckland City Backpackers) which is essentially the kiwi equivalent to the Sydney Central YHA, complete with the Globe pub/club underneath that is a blast 7 days a week....quite reminiscent of Scubar.
Eventually we settled in with a good crowd of people around the hostel and hung out for a week, even managing to tour the city a bit on the free Stray Tour bus.
Highlights would have to include the Minus 5 bar where Haley works. It's a bar completely composed of ice...including the glasses you drink from. You can probably tell that this is a bull in the chinashop scenario waiting to be told. I'll leave that for the pictures to tell. Jay had his camera there to record the carnage as Paff and I ate glasses, ice sculptures and almost the bar...
The nights partying were a blast and I may describe them in more detail after I take a look at my pics to help jog the memories. Til then the next story will have to be St.Patty's...Slainte!
Posted by Dr.Unk at March 21, 2006 8:09 PM
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