NZ Part 2 - The Two Towers
Maybe I was a little too quick to judge Auckland. The city looked much more welcoming in the daylight. We walked around and explored with no real plan and eventually ended up at Sky Tower. As the tallest structure in the city, and apparently in the entire southern hemisphere, it's hard to miss. When we got up close the other thing that was hard to miss was the bungee jumping platform. We hoped to see it in use but unfortunately no one was feeling that adventurous. Weta Workshop is the design and special effects studio that worked on all the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies and they have an interactive tour in Auckland. It's not an actual studio but kind of like Disney world for anyone interested in movies. You get to see how they take concepts and ideas and turn them into reality with makeup, costume, miniatures, forced perspective, and other tricks. We're all ready to make a movie now. After that we went in search of food and got our first fish...