To celebrate the opening of the RWC a group of us headed into the city to watch all the pre-match festivities. There was a buzz on Quay Street as the big screens were set up in preparation for the game.
We joined the queue for Queens Wharf and waited for several hours, soaking up the sun. Unfortunately the complete ineptitude of the planners and lack of crowd control meant that the queue was redundant as many thousands of people pushed their way onto the wharf meaning those that had queued missed out.
So instead, we headed back to the Shore to watch the game elsewhere. The ferry to Devonport passed the Cloud (where we wanted to get to) and the thousands of people against the barriers - actually quite glad in the end that we didn't get on there.
The queues to get the ferry to the city were bad (not helped when they closed the ferries as the city was full of people), but the traffic down to Devonport to watch the fireworks was just mental. We eventually got back to a friend's house and watched the amazing firework display from near there. Then back to watch the ABs notch up their first win of the tournament against Tonga.
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