Erin Point

For the past couple of days we have been in full weekend mode. On Friday night, we settled in early with some pizza to watch the Warriors beat the Roosters in a Rugby League playoff game. On Saturday and Sunday mornings we were up early and at the gym...getting in beach body mode as the beach is just a few weeks away. Saturday afternoon found us shopping in the city. We stopped into Borders to pick out some travel books for our trip to Asia in 2009. We felt completely overwhelmed and decided to start with a advice from a travel shop instead. We have a tiny plan in place and will attack that over the coming months. We also ran into a few Australian Netball players during our shopping spree. They were in town for the NZ/Australia game. Once again, NZ dominated the court. We met up with Sander and Mirjam (from the Netherlands) for some coffee in the afternoon.

After our session at the gym today we relaxed for a while in the sun. By 2pm we were stir crazy and decided to go for a walk around the block. 2 hours and many steps later, we were back home. Our walk took us from Viaduct Harbour, where we live to the Auckland Harbour Bridge, up a big hill into Herne Bay and a place called Erin Point. We explored the point before stopping for a snack in Ponsonby and returning home for a homemade feast of slow cooker Curry Chicken.





We both have a busy week ahead and we'll be heading off to the Bay of Plenty next weekend to see New Zealand's most active volcano, White Island.