On the wayback from the Pig and Whistle we stopped off at a supermarket for some water, some $60 and a bunch of random purchases later we left. Stupidly I had not brought any hundergarments when I packed to leave, so I was left to perform the shamely task of buying supermarket undies to tide me over, as I had worn the current ones inside out already.
Back at the hotel, everything smells of sulphur, apparently we need to bathe in toothpaste or bleach or something.
After a restless night, for some on the porcelain throne, we had to cancel the MTBing, God then made sure that the skydiving wasn't going to happen, so we took a stroll through the government gardens where they have more geothermal things, another world rated 'Polynesian Spa' and cool trees. On the way to brunch we passed a bike shop, or three.... before settling at Fat Dogs cafe ( named after his wife) ( I'm kidding!!) however I know why dog is fat- my French toast was an entire loaf with 3 bananas and a flagon of maple syrup, my Flat White was served in a cup with no handle, what normal folk refer to as a soup bowl. Ais (still on toast) had two doorsteps of cremated bread and a litre of tea.Thankfully they provided wheelchairs back to our car and off we set back to the city.
I drove, Ais slept, we arrived back after a brief fight with the SatNav just after 4 - plenty of time to organise the night festivities and a RWC venue.
All 4 million kiwis were headed to Auckland's party central to drink, paint themselves black and make merry so us all been foreign decided to find a local watering whole with big ass TV's.
Anyway, a tense 80 minutes concluded with the All Blacks holding onto a slim 8-7 victory over the French, their first World Cup win ever it would seem, and for a evening nothing else in NZ mattered to 4 million odd folk ( except those that don't follow rugby, and those too young to understand, those to old to care, those in bed, and the unfortunate French/Kiwis or Freewi's as I just called them- so maybe 3,425,000 odd)
Tomorrow is a day of planning, we haven't planned well enough in the past so need to spend a day organising the next expedition... to the South Island...
