March 19, 2014. Auckland, New Zealand. Moving On.

The purpose of our journey was to visit Gill in New Zealand. Our visit was a great success, at least for us. I suspect we drove Gill nuts with our lack of activity. But we enjoyed our walks around Christchurch, all directed by Gill. We finished up with a bang. Last evening, Ken and I hosted a dinner at the lovely little restaurant, The Curator's Restaurant, just across the street from our apartment at the Y. Jurgen and his wife came, along with Gill. We preordered the food and wine so it was just like entertaining at home except no one needed to work. It was a festive event. Today we flew to Auckland and checked into The Rendezvous Hotel. Ken booked it long ago, using air miles to pay the four day stay. He is a clever fellow. Who knew you could use air miles to pay for hotels? And the hotel is lovely too. Today we took a long nap but tomorrow we will walk around Auckland a bit. We are inching our way back home!!