01/11/07: At the airport in Sydney with my boarding pass for my Air New Zealand flight *^^*
A clearer version~
Taken at the airport! :D
02/11/07: Went to lunch at this really cute café restaurant (unfortunately, I don't know its name) and took lots of pictures of the scenery!
Some fish soup bowl dish that we ordered~
Chicken salad~
Vegetable lasagna~
An interesting bird! Actually, all the birds were interesting looking, but this one especially caught my eye~
It looks like a Pūkeko (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Swamphen) but I'm not sure~
Look at the birds attacking the leftovers!
More birds eating leftovers
My coffee ^^
A shot of one of the inside rooms~
A shot of the front (it looks smaller than it actually is)
Isn't it quaint? It's apparently a historical building..
03/11/07: Fireworks in celebration of Guy Fawkes Day
06/11/07: The sunset sky was really nice, so I went out to take pictures. But with every battery I put in being dead already, it took a while so the really pretty part passed. That, and I'm not a great photographer. So this picture most definitely does not show the beauty that I saw.
07/11/07: Most happy discovery made at the Countdown at Westfield WestCity!!! *^^*
A cute Coke advertisement in the mall. Why doesn't Coke do stuff like this for us?!
Amusing store sign outside on the street (I walked outside for a little bit to kill time). And no, it's not an actual S&M store.. it's a clothing store.
My McD's #2 meal. That drink and those fries are NOT medium sized.. they are SO small by American standards!
Another shot of my meal.
Advertisement of the mall on the table.
08/11/07: Vodafone sent me a gift for buying a phone! Three gifts in fact ^^
A closer look at the wrapping, and what was inside. Magnets!
And this ad. I thought it was amusing.
09/11/07: A sign on Parnell Road
My meal at The Strawberry Alarm Clock! Ham, tomato, and brie panini ^^
It was very yummy. But pricey. $10?! The prices here make me want to cry..
Pretty building I saw on my walk from Parnell to Downtown
Look what I found!
More University of Auckland..
They were having some demonstration..
Thought this was the nicest Burger King I've ever seen.. so I took a picture!
Found the ferry!
The first HSBC I have seen in NZ. Next to the Westfield Downtown.
Westfield Downtown already has Christmas decorations up!
I got a double cone from Wendy's Supa Sundaes. One scoop Vanilla Dream, one scoop Hokey Pokey. My reward for walking everywhere. YUMMY!
Another shot. I'm not too good at these TT_TT
Tissue with their logo
A quick shot of the place as I walked by. Didn't want to stand out too much ^^#
Thought the building looked nice so I took a picture. I think it's a hotel?
Ferry again!
The water and sky are both so pretty, yes?
A shot of the Sky Tower
Look! Bungy!
Thought the structure was cool. Was too lazy/impatient to wait until lady had walked by. Haha.
Aotea Square Market! Every Friday and Saturday. I will have to check it out before I leave..
City Hall.. I think.
On the wall of City Hall building..
There was a Borders! And I found the manga section! I was so happy to finally see some manga (none of the other bookstores carry manga)
I found another HSBC!
The bungy place again. Apparently you sit in the seats and you get swung upppppp and down. It was a girl and a guy. I was okay with the girl's screams, but the guy's just cracked me up. He screamed like he was in real pain. Hilarious.
They have Quickly here too! Amazing!
SKY TOWER!
Entrance to Sky City
Downstairs. I don't know how much the Sky Jump is (it's 192m! I want to do it!), but going up to the Sky Tower is $25.
Fountain in Sky City lobby
11/11/07: Cadbury section at the local Pak'nSAVE! Beautiful~
14/11/07: Auckland War Memorial Museum!
Shot of the Cenotaph and the museum
Tread not upon it except in reverence. Remember this is holy ground.
Just like I thought, the Cenotaph is a direct replica of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Whitehall, London (I had taken a picture of that when I was there). The designer tried to get the rights to the original blueprints, but they were too expensive, so he went to the cinemas every night for a week to sketch it from the newsreels.
PACIFIC MASTERPIECES: Dance paddle from Easter Island
Interesting canoe.
MAORI COURT
Maori Cultural Experience guides~
Starting off one of their performances~
Showing off weapons
More weapons!
Juggling it around to each other, showing dexterity, etc..
During another dance..
One of the guys showing off the paddle, which is a weapon.
Another weapon
Showing off the weapons~
Amazing, no?
WILD CHILD exhibit
Sad story of Rajah
Close up
We were actually allowed to go in.. very cool!
Back to WILD CHILD, where they showcase lives of children back in the day~ Look at the Cadbury!
Thought this was a cute milk ad ^^
PACIFIC LIFEWAYS
The Loli-Pop exhibition~!
These five outfits were also displayed on their own.
See? I didn't lie!
For lunch, I ordered a BLT and lemonade. I was surprised when they gave me Sprite, until I saw this. Sprite IS lemonade! Who knew? o.O
My BLT. It was too big, so I had to cut it up and eat it in pieces.
ENCOUNTER (NZ Design and Decorative Arts). Took the picture because I thought the "bird" outfit was amusing~
WILD CHILD. How could I have missed this the first time?!
This time there were no people, so I was able to get a shot of the room from outside the window!
COASTAL gallery. Penguin in honour of Karen! (Doesn't it remind you of Happy Feet?)
More penguins
Fur seal pup!
OCEANS exhibit. Dolphins!
The Arts of Korea gallery. Go Koreans! ^^
The bird is eating their heart O.O (This is by Namsook Chang)
ANCIENT WORLDS: Egyptian mummy
MAORI NATURAL HISTORY: Te Ao Turoa
ORIGINS exhibit. Looks cool, yes?
Wouldn't Ross (from Friends) love this part?
KIWI!!!
Birds at the end of the ORIGINS exhibit..
.. leading into the LAND gallery.
HALL OF MEMORIES
A closeup of one of the plaques
Pictures/profiles of some of the soldiers who gave their lives. There was another display case like this on the other side of the hall.
Let these panels never be filled.
WWI
Either from the BOER WAR or the NZ WARS gallery
Mitsubishi A6M3 model 22 “Zero”
THE SANCTUARY
Finally found something that displayed what all the permanent galleries were. In case you want to go back and figure out where everything was from~
The Spitfire
Poppy Day made me think of California (state flower: golden poppy) and Wizard of Oz (field of poppies made them sleepy). How sad that a serious day makes me think of such trivial things TT_TT
WWII and LATER CONFLICTS: The Korean War exhibit
"I had always been dead keen to get away overseas. I didn't even know where Korea was. We more or less expected the Korean War to be finished when we got there."
Pretty flowers nearby the museum
16/11/07: Touring Print Exhibition!
The exhibit~
Hung from the ceiling. The colours are so pretty
Featherlight by Neil Dawson. Donated by Nufarm Limited.
Took pictures of some of the exhibits in the AUT Graphic Design exhibition.
Most of the stuff here was for sale, for really cheap prices!
Had “What's This” stickers so I took some. If you can see the poster on the left, there are pictures of people with the sticker over their mouths.
Close-up of the logo.
#$%* = LOVE
From the Dyslexia exhibit.
Really good quotes!
Finally found the exhibition sign.
The front of Aotea Centre
In Aotea Square~
Took a better picture of this than last time, yes? ^^#
Window decorations for SMITH + CAUGHEY'S
Elfy School
Hark the Herald Angels...
Deck the Halls...
Santa's getting ready
Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is...
Look! It's Miffy!
Christmas decorations from inside SMITH + CAUGHEY'S
They had costumes from Elizabeth: The Golden Age!
More pretty Christmas decorations
They had a LITTLE PRINCE set!!!
Christmas decorations are everywhere! This Santa's a little freaky because he wags his finger at you o.O
In front of a large tourist store. Brown Kiwi.
Aotea Dog: New Zealand Sheep Dog
New Zealand Moa
LeSportsac section at the DFS Galleria
So cute!
Tokidoki for LeSportsac
I want a Tokidoki LeSportsac bag!!! The one I'm modelling is $305 duty free O.O
Since I can't buy it, the least I can do is take pictures with it. Isn't it so cute?!
Sign in front of DFS Galleria
17/11/07: Muriwai Beach! SO BEAUTIFUL~
To where does this path lead?
Look at all the gannets! Also known as takapu
More gannets nesting
Me and Jeffrey's mum
There were some men fishing
oOOO, foliage! Haha
Look at the colours of the algae on the rock..
The powers of water/nature.. amazing~
Now we came down to one of the actual beach areas
Had to be my corny fobby self *^^*
Beautiful sun
A mysterious cave!
The sun behind the clouds
The sun is setting~!
With the “colour accent” option on my camera
You can actually SEE the sun!
20/11/07: Gus Fisher Gallery. Exhibition: Vernon Brown, from the Architecture Archive
There were also two John Reynolds exhibitions
Speaking Truth to Power. Illustrations from his book. I took pictures of some of the illustrations displayed.
I am a blogger!
I Tell You Solemnly exhibition. Very cool.
Front of the Gus Fisher Gallery.
Billboard I saw on the street. Gee, it makes me feel so much safer as I'm walking along in an OPEN PUBLIC PLACE TT_TT
A little park-esque place I found on my way to the next gallery.
To thine own self be true. Wise words.
Albert Park. Decided to return to it later and just take a picture of this from across the street.
I found this amusing.
City Art Rooms, currently showing two exhibitions.
Aidan Law's works.. so amazing~!
I like the little unicorn in the bottom right corner ^^
Close-up of one of his works.
From Cruz Jimenez' exhibition
In front of AUT
St. Paul's on St. Paul Street
Exhibit at St. Paul St. Gallery
Doesn't this kind of make you think of rabbits?
On the description for the one on the right: “Turn lies into speech, speech into nonsense, enemies into time and time into eternity.”
The New Gallery of the Auckland Art Gallery. They were having a “Making Worlds” exhibit but I was too cheap to pay for it.
Fountain outside the Main Gallery of the Auckland Art Gallery
Auckland Art Gallery
Fountains in Khartuom Place
Oedipus Rex Gallery
A work of art in Albert Park by the Auckland Art Gallery
The trees in this park were amazing!
Fountain in the middle of the park
A closer look
Another amusing Korean restaurant name.
Outside of the McPherson Gallery.
In front of the Britomart Transporation Centre
Yummy!
21/11/07: Amusing window display for Sony Style in Newmarket
Pow!
Christmas display inside the Newmarket SMITH + CAUGHEY'S
SMITH + CAUGHEY'S definitely know their decorations~
24/11/07: Me and Jeffrey's mum, on the bus to the city~ (taken on her camera)
Posing with the huge ornament by Westfield Downtown (taken on Jeffrey's mum's camera)
You can't tell, but there are lights in the back that flash on and off.
Found a great tourist gift shop: OK Gift Shop! But it caters only to Japanese tourists, so EVERYTHING is in Japanese. The good part is, there are such cute displays like this one! Yay Hello Kitty! ^^
The gift shop also had Happy Hens! I found them in another gift shop as well, but the collection here is much bigger.
If only they were cheaper, I would buy them for my mum.
My LARGE McD's meal. Finally the right size!
Posing with Jeffrey's mum by Santa's Mailbox (taken on her camera)
Look! It's Santa's mail box! Check out www.christmasinthecity.co.nz for more info~
Even though I'm no longer a child, I'm still tempted to do this. Keke.
Stopped by DFS Galleria. Saw this cute bear rug thing and Jeffrey's mum took a picture of me with it ^^#
Jeffrey's mum wanted a picture of us by the SMITH + CAUGHEY'S display. Don't we fit in perfectly with the angels? ^^ (taken on her camera)
A man offered to take a picture of us. We totally covered the Elfy School display though TT_TT (taken on Jeffrey's mum's camera)
Jeffrey's mum wanted me to take a picture in front of it, but I ran off and came up behind it. I know, I'm a genius ^^ (taken on her camera)
And then she joined me! (taken on her camera)
28/11/07: Pretty church on Ponsonby Road
One of the nice buildings on Karangahape Road (aka K'Rd)
Another nice building~ The Naval & Family Hotel
Clothing store with cute window display~
A nice building back on Ponsonby Road
Another look
Street decoration at Western Park
Cute AND useful!
“Western Park is arguably Auckland City's oldest park and is one of the oldest three with the Auckland Domain and Albert Park.”
Quite interesting..
Cute window display for Milly's, a store for “people who love to cook”
Another nice building on Ponsonby Road
The first floor is a bar/restaurant.. I wonder what this building is for?
Ponsonby Public Library and Community Centre
Thought this was an interesting store name. Holy SHEET!
29/11/07: Westfield mall, Santa Shop!
They have tall thin Coca Cola cans here!
Achilles Point
Should I Photoshop this?
Selwyn Domain
Pretty fountain~
A last shot before we left~
