Farewell New Zealand

We partied in style at the Proclaimers / B52's concert at the Villa Marie Estate winery over the weekend.  The weather was beautiful and the bands were amazing.  Not a bad way to wrap up this leg if you discount the massive hangover the next day ( New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc goes down way too easily ).  Today was spent packing up and paring down to lighten up the load as much as possible since we will be carrying everything on our backs from here on out.  Tomorrow is a day of shopping, shipping stuff home, and sightseeing in Auckland and then we are off to Melbourne for four days before heading to SE Asia for the final leg of our year long sabbatical.  Hard to believe the year is almost up, but there is plenty to see and do in the next couple of months.