An Ocean Away
Our last day! The Kiwi Clan picked us up and took us to Jen's favorite cafe near our AirBnB. The day was a bit cloudy but dining al fresco worked. Oddly, we ran into our waitress from earlier in the week when we left our breakfast. Zena was minding her parents dogs for the day and immediately recognized us. Oh, NZ! Earlier in the week, Kent had told us about Kelly Tarlton and his epic quest to build an aquarium in Auckland. He said it was small and overpriced ... but as readers of this blog will know, we love aquariums ! One of our earliest vacations with the kids (Penn still in utero, Harper about a year) was in Long Beach, and I'll always remember Harper banging on the glass of the Long Beach Aquarium with her chubby hand trying to get the fish to come to her. We've been to so many since then. So, overpriced or not, we were going! RIP Kelly Tarlton who had a crazy vision of building an aquarium out of discarded s...