The coromandel

ALright now that I finally have about 5 minutes to type and the connection is holding fairly dteady I can give a little update. I had lamb for the first time... in an Indian restaurant!.. Not how I expected it would happen but it was good food nonetheless! After Norman's I went to Auckland, and chilled there for a couple hours, going up the sky tower, and then realized that it's pretty much like Vancouver, complete with the Asian shop keepers, with a little bit of Seattle thrown in, aka the space needle. I stayed at Chris' place, and he was very nice , giving me a wicked good steak and a couple of beers. I gotta admit, I've become a fan of New Zealand beef, the flavour is absolutely amazing. I woke up and caught the ferry over to the coromandel, then met up with this American guy named Devon and we hiked around a couple logging roads, got lost and hitched around for teh afternoon. An entertaining time, sthough a little sketchy at times. And my time is up so I will have to continue this later, but everything is going alright, I'm set up to return to Alyth's on Saturday, so hopefully I will be able to make a bigger update then. This coasts have been absolutely beautiful, and I've got some amazing photos. I'm still (slightly) on budget, but I hope all is well in all your respective places!