June 23rd My Golden Birthday! Day 4

Happy Golden 23rd Birthday!

Well today was my birthday! I turned number 23! Today had to be golden, right? It was, let me tell you the day...

Best hot chocolate ever!

We had an early wake up call this morning, no worries there. Put all our bags on the coach and then a couple of us walked around town buying souviners, and had a stop at a wonderful bakery/cafe. Hot choco was amazing as you can see. We had a good two and a half hours to kill before returning.

Matamata, NZ, posing with Gollum

We were prepared to have a three to four hour coach ride heading to Auckland, NZ.  The whole coach sang to me and had a few hip hips. Whale Rider was put on since we had been to some of the places and experienced some of the culture.We stopped in Matamata and had lunch. This is the town where LOTR filmed. We took pictures with Gollum. Our tour director gave us some trivia sheets, and we had to go around and ask locals questions, so we did that at lunch.

Dani and I by crator with a view
of Auckland

Went to look at and walk around a crator. Good view of the city of Auckland.

Angus Beef Steakhouse. Heather and I.

Stopped to have dinner, went off in own groups. We went to Angus Steak House! I ordered the entree of cold salmon, which found that out pretty quickly. It was good when the hot plate came around. We just chilled for a bit, had two to three hours to eat and walk around.

We had about thirty to forty minutes left so we walked by coach and saw there was an irish pub and decided to take a look and just chill.

8PM headed back to hotel. It was a great day today.