Hot cross buns today!!! We got them! And boy were they good! We got one chocolate-coffee bun and two plains which were definitey not plain. Good Lord! They were baked in the little bakery we found, the Tart Bakery, and were simply divine. Please understand these little tiny bakeries with peculiar names and absolutely no work room and little display room are everywhere. We just seem to find the really good spots, and they invariably have wonderful people run...

We celebrated our 38th wedding anniversary today (and probably will again tomorrow since it's still yesterday in Atlanta), by walking down from Grey Lynn/Ponsonby to the central business district, watching for meaningful souvenirs along the way, and catching the ferry across the bay to Devonport. Our walk to the Ferry Terminal took us through Myers Park once again so I got a chance to get some better photos - seems the park was established in 1913. We had hope...

Auckland, City of Sails! Auckland is perhaps one of the busiest cities we have encountered so far. Set in a unique position in the neck of the North Island of New Zealand, it is actually possible to see the Tasman Sea on the west side of the land and the Pacific Ocean on the east side. It is a big, big shipping port - exporting New Zealand goods to ports all over the world. Like Wellington, Auckland is also an active cruise line port. When the ships come in, ...

We saw a remarkable presentation at the Carter Observatory today, called "We Are Astronomers." What we saw was a 45-minute fabulously produced video on space, including all that stuff that's out there and our Milky Way Galaxy. We learned how astronomers and scientists today collaborate via the Internet on the vast amount of research and data being gathered to better understand the universe. It was this group, by the way, who envisoned and launched the creation o...

We feel like a couple of mountain goats. We have walked up and down so many hills that everything I have is beginning to ache - just a little bit. I don't know about Stan but the sides of my lower legs are sore, my ankles ache, I feel my toes! And my back is a little out of whack from all this walking uphill! I am not a mountain goat by nature. Before I get into today, I must say that it is impossible to comment on every sight, every observation and every im...