We have completed our thirteen-day tour of New Zealand. We all really enjoyed our time, despite the poor weather (5 days sun, 8 days rain) and the fact that three of us have come down with colds (Adam has been working hard to not come in contact with any of our germs, so he is the lone survivor as of now). We finished off NZ with it's largest city, Auckland, where 1.6 million of the country's 4 million citizens live. Auckland is a very nice city, and seems like it would be a cool place to live. We kept a slow pace here actually, mostly just walking around and getting a feel for the town, rather than racing from one attraction to another. We did visit the Sky Tower, the tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere,
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