21 December 2011.... The long awaited NZ trip is finally here.... This trip has been postponed for the longest time and the air ticket was due to expire in a month's time. Can you imagine, we bought the Auckland ticket 1 year ago??!!.... Not only that, we almost changed the ticket to fly to London.... Anyway, to cut a long story short, we paid S$7,200 in total for 3 of us on the SQ flight to Auckland (amendments and flight upgrading etc)... This is ridiculously crazy, but we didn't have any choice, since we had to return earlier for Amanda's orientation in her new school...
as usual, we parked our car in terminal 3 throughout the entire trip...
amanda had some food before the flight since she usually sleeps through the entire flight without any meals... however, this time, it was a great success for amanda... not only did she not vomit at all, in fact she even managed to stay awake for a sector to catch the inflight movies and snack on potato chips and chocolates....
our rented car... since we have spent so much unnecessary fees on our flight, we decided to cut on our car... hence we took from a local nz company instead of our usual hertz car rental... it was a good experience but just that the car was a little old, compared to what we usually got from hertz i.e. the latest model... haha...
checked into the apartment... and after freshening up, we walked around the city... amanda was so funny, she logged on to facebook the moment we reached the apartment whilst i was seeing to the check-in... haha....
we finally found the apartment we stayed when amanda was 3 years old... daddy was elated as he had very good experience and memories during his stay... lol!!
took the free shuttle to auckland fish market...
we enjoyed ourselves so much here.... played awhile before we had our dinner....
seafood was ultra fresh!
just couldn't resist my cuppa coffee... we discovered L&P and love it to bits!
our seafood dinner....
never had such a relaxing meal in a long time.... good food, good ambience with live band, perfect evening cool weather of 15 deg cel and most importantly, with my family.... awesome to the max! <3
more pics before we took the bus back to auckland city... decided to drop by this bbq duck cafe to get out takeaway supper... daddy's favourite!
bottom left : our supper... by the way, the char siew rawks... and the beef hor fun was awesome too... extreme right : refreshment with compliments from the apartment...
Time for bed... Day was extremely well spent... Looking forward to another fun day the next morning... :))
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