Current mood:

happy

South Island here I come
I'm here in Wellington now for a quick stop over. I received email from ornoth that Boston got over a foot of snow on the 7th. I'm glad I missed it. Here it's been sunny and warm with the brief exception of yesterday morning in River Valley when it was drizzly and cool while we went horseback riding but it wasn't even enough to bother us. Soft weather as the Irish would call it I imagine.

Having a great time but realizing that this trip is just not long enough - I must come back again! Saw the Lord of the Rings exhibit today at the Wellington Museaum (Te Papa - which translates to Our Place) which was AMAZING all the great props and info on how it was made etc. Even got a photo taken with Tim a mate from the bus who's 6' tall where I'm bigger than he is (the perspective thing). I'll scan it in when I get home. Wait til you see it - what a hoot!

The museum itself is quite extensive. We got into town late yesterday and spent 1/2 hr there before it closed and then went back when it opened this morning and was there until about 4pm and I know there's still a lot that we didn't get to see. After that we took the cable car up to the top of the city and walked down through the Botanical Gardens. It's a beautiful walk and there was a great play ground there that the group of us stopped and played in. It had swings, and two huge tube slides and a zip wire and some other fun things to play on. It was like we were back to 5 years old again.

Early tomorrow we catch a bus to take the ferry over to South Island. It's a 3 hour trip but I am hoping that I'll see some dolphins or even maybe whales during it because you sometimes do see them. If not I'm sure we'll find some sort of fun to get into.

I've made some good friends from the Kiwi bus and a bunch of us are on the ferry together tomorrow and going thru the South Island together. One woman, Sarah is my age and we're just on the same time schedule so it works out that we're hitting the South Island together and then down to the Bottom bus at the same time which should be fun. I can't wait to see the beauty of the South Island and continue to enjoy myself.

Well I'm off to run some errands before we go south so I'll try to update you guys in a few days.

Cheers!