Auckland Day 1 – My Birthday!

Spent some time in the morning uploading Pics to Flickr and then we took a drive in the afternoon over to Piha on the Western Beaches and then took a walk up into the rain forest following a small river to a waterfall. In the evening we went out to Gengy's Mongolian Restaurant. This is a buffet style all-you-can-eat restaurant where you choose what you want and then the chefs cook it for you on a huge circular hot-plate. The food was great and I went back for a 3rd plate full! Back at Phil's house we celebrated my birthday with a couple of drinks and all I can say is the Whisky bottle came out – and ended up in the bin, and it wasn't me that was pouring the drinks!