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Got up around 9am. The hostel doesn't offer free breakfast so everyone sleeps in especially if it's been a heavy one the night before. Gina was arriving today from Los Angeles. Her flight was due in at 8.05am so by the time she got to the hostel it was around 10.30am. She found out the room I was staying in and came up to see me. It was really great to see her after a month. She couldn't check in until 1pm so we went out and had a walk around. Gina needed to open an account with Westpac so we went to the bank and got this sorted. Her UK bank Lloyds charge a fortune to withdraw money overseas whereas I am with Nationwide which aren't so bad. We then found a pub called Red Lion to have lunch and we spoke about the people we had met and things we had done in America. At 1pm Gina checked in and was put in my dorm room. I had asked the day I had arrived if she could be put with me if there was room and I guess that they had space when Gina checked in. Afterwards we got a drink from Starbucks and took it to Albert Park and sat there for a while. Then we went back to the hostel and discussed what we wanted to do over the next couple of days. Some things you have to ring up and pre-book in advance so I rang up and did this. Also we booked up the Base hostels in the rest of New Zealand as we have a discount voucher for these hostels and we didn't want them to get sold out. After we did this we walked to the Sky Tower and saw the Bungy ride on the way. Not many people were doing this. You sit inside it and it shoots you high up in the sky. When we got to the Sky Tower people were doing the Sky jump so we watched this. We found a bar inside so we stopped for a drink. In the evening we went to the Globe bar for free drinks with Ian, Becky, Andrew (Savage) and Jamie. Gina missed out on the free drinks as she was doing her make up lol. After the Globe bar we went to a comedy club as it's Ian's birthday weekend. It was a really great night. It finished at midnight so we headed back to the hostel as Gina was feeling really jetlagged by this point. When we got back someone was in Gina's bed. There had been a mix up in the dorm room and someone should had checked out that day but didn't. The person had to move in the end but Gina waited ages for new linen to be given to her. She was not happy as she was so tired.
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