Time Traveller

Our last few days in New Zealand were spent in Auckland. There aren't too many photos because most of our time was spent taking care of family business and visiting old friends. Dad and I did take the ferry twice into Auckland. Both days were spent visiting a tall building with important people. (I was, at one point, very high up in the building with the weird halo over it.) Although there was business to attend to, I managed to visit every second hand bookstore in the area. 

The photo below and the photo above are of the same thing, just a different perspective.
We left Auckland around 8PM on the 24th.

We flew and flew and flew until day broke.

Thanks to the international dateline, the day was May 24th.

 

We landed around 12 noon on May 24th in San Francisco. So technically we landed in San Francisco before we left in Auckland. That part of travel always messes with me a bit.

After a bit of a nap, I was wide awake. So my brother and I went out to see Star Trek, which was loads of fun. And so ends my adventures in New Zealand. For now...

Ferry Ride

Dad and I took the ferry to Auckland so we could visit Grandad's stockbroker. I love riding on the ferry. It seems like the trip was a lot longer when I was little, but it only takes 15 minutes to get from Devonport to Auckland.

The stockbroker is in the second tallest building in the picture below.

The view was breathtaking from the building. I may have had a bit of vertigo looking down.

When we got back to Devonport, I talked Dad into stopping by the cemetery on Mount Victoria. It is a very steep cemetery.

Unlike all the tombstones I've seen in the States, many of the ones here had metal lettering rather than letters carved into the stone.

There were also a few Maori tombstones.