Auckland New Zealand

We spent most of the morning waiting for the girls. They were arriving at 4:40 AM and should have been to the hotel by 6:30 AM. Turns out their plane from Denver took off 3 hours late - it had been hit by lightening on its way from Chicago and had to be checked out before flying again. They were rebooked on a flight that arrived later, getting to the hotel about 10:30AM.
We had a city tour in the afternoon from the harbor to the big park with the Auckland museum. It wasn't particularly interesting: lots of neighborhoods, plus stories of how the harbor area is being revitalized with new buildings, marinas, hotels, and restaurants. We ended out tour a Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World. Kelly took an old water treatment plant and changed it into an aquarium, a penguin encounter (primarily Gentoo and king penguins), and a stingray pool. We made the 3:00 feeding of the stingrays. While this was a Fodor's choice, it wasn't very special to us, we should have gone sailing.

Stingray Feeding