Tower power

Our tour group is a nice bunch of folks. They seem very happy for Cas and me. Every time we see a place that offers to perform wedding ceremonies, they mention that we could get married there. 

Today, we were up at the top of Auckland's Sky Tower, and we discovered that they also want us to jump off of everything in sight. Evidently, since we demonstrated our propensity to jump off of things at the Kawarau River bridge, we are the group's official adrenaline junkies. 

So there it was, we got to Auckland today and climbed the sky tower. That's not entirely true; we used an elevator. But once we got there, there was a feature where people could jump off of a very high elevation, allowing a series of cords and harnesses to take them down, then draw them back up. It seems that our group wished for us to participate. Even if we had wanted to do so, the tower was very proud of this service. We figured we had paid enough to jump from things this month.

So, we refrained from jumping. After a while, we left the group for a bit and had a beer looking out over the city. It was pretty cool. From the sky tower, we walked down to the water and started looking at different options for dinner. We eventually decided on an Italian place. We had a good dinner there, then headed back to the hotel. Here was our view of the tower as we were walking back at night:

 

We have to get up early tomorrow, as we are headed out on a ferry boat to Waiheke Island. That is our last big day with the full group. We have a wine tasting, as if that would surprise anyone at this point. After that, there is a farewell dinner with the group. The following morning, Cas and I will leave with one other couple to take a flight to Fiji. I can't wait.