Sky Tower 10th Birthday

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Sky Tower as seen from the living room of the house that came second in our shortlist.

The sky tower is 10 today (03/08/07 )so we headed into to town to take advantage of ‘children free’ and $5 (£2) for adults deal to enter the Sky tower At 328m high it is the tallest man-made structure in the Southern Hemisphere. The tower is part of the SkyCity casino and hotel complex.  Continue reading

Fire Alarm at North Harbour Stadium

Blue Beard warms up the North Harbour stadium crowd

Blue Beard’s cannon smoke sets-off the North Harbour stadium fire alarm.

A busy week.  Work for me and sorting the house out for Ruth. The weekend saw Ruth, Ellie and I heading to North Harbour stadium on Auckland’s North Shore to watch the Auckland Blues v the Natal Sharks (the Blues play home games at Eden Park and North Harbour stadium).

The atmosphere was better than Eden Park (perhaps because he stadium is much smaller, the game was more competitive and there are lots of South African living on the North Shore ) and the Sharks won with plenty of on-field incident.

The game was not without off-field incident too.

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