A very social Wednesday

This is a late blip.

We are having the main metre/fuse/electrical board for the entire building updated, so our power was off from 8am until 5pm.  We decided it was a good day to be out of the house.  So, we walked to Eastridge Shopping Centre and caught a bus from there to the Auckland Museum, where we visited the largest collection of ancient Greek artefacts ever loaned from the British Museum to New Zealand in the Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors, and Heroes exhibition. It was fascinating and hard to get our heads around the fact some of the artefacts were aged as much as 550 to 500 years BCE.

We had a quick lunch at the museum, then caught a bus back to Mission Bay, where we met friends for a drink and a chat.  It was a most entertaining couple of hours.

From Mission Bay we caught a bus into the city to attend the opening of a photo exhibition celebrating 50 years of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).  How lucky we are to live where we do and have first world problems to deal with.  The people and crises that MSF deal with are heartbreaking - sometimes natural disasters, sometimes the outbreak of diseases I’ve never heard off, but more often the effects of man’s inhumanity to man.  A very sobering exhibition.