Economics With A Face

At first, ordering food was more difficult than what we were used to in South America which came as a surprise. Everything got cleared up when I told the owner of the store we had no idea what he meant when he asked if we wanted a "flat white" or a "long black" (i.e. coffee with milk or without). He asked where we were from and when we replied California he said he was originally from Korea.

That day we headed over to the Sky Tower to get a bird's eye view of the city. Em took some pictures of Auckland from what we were told was the "highest structure in the Southern Hemisphere" and we also got to see some people "base jump" by sliding down a cable from the roof of the building to the ground.

I had emailed Rodney Hide who is an MP in New Zealand who I had contacted in the past regarding his weblog. I let him know that we were in New Zealand and he replied that he and is family were down in Queenstown for the holidays and that while he would be willing to come up and meet us, we were more than welcome to come down and see them.

We decided to alter our trip a bit and bought a ticket to Queenstown in the South Island and then would make our way back up by land. After getting that squared away we grabbed some Chinese food for dinner before heading off to bed for some much needed sleep.