Off up to Auckland for Sun->Tues. Nice flight up past taranaki (I can’t get enough shots of this mountain! I love it!!)
We had our biannual work conference on the island of Waiheke. I asked – and was allowed – to fly up a day early which meant I managed to get to see Cirque du Soleil perform their Varekai production. I’m not even going to try to describe it except to say if you make the effort to see these people perform then you won’t be disappointed at all!. This is the second of their productions that I have seen – this time last year Alegria in the Royal Albert Hall which was also simply brilliant (thanks to Mhairi’s parents for that one).
After that it was off to the island for the conference. Really was a beautiful island – incredible to see a sky full of stars and yet only be 30 mins from a town the size of Dublin.. Did manage to get to try wake-boarding. I was really happy getting up on my third attempt and not stopping until my arms could take no more. Lots of crossover with snowboarding.. (pics to follow hopefully)
As chance would have it an old engineering friend Brian flew into Auckland on the 18th – and he came out to the Island and joined us for the work BBQ that evening – I think he quite enjoyed himself. Whether it helped with sorting out his jetlag I have no idea!
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