Richmond Guest House Wellington

... card. Yup, I'm just that special....It's cool though, I brought a back up in the event such an unfortunate thing were to happen :) What was so hilarious was that we had met this awesome couple in Fiji (Mike and Louisa) who had first travelled to Mexico before venturing on to Fiji. Mike told us this hilarious story about how he left his debit card in the ATM and I sat there laughing and wondering how anyone could ever do such a thing...until I did it! Anyway...:)
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand jordan-amanda

... down when I need it again! The room is not small, but seems small after last night's vast suite in Napier. The view from the balcony over Wellington harbour is stunning though. We've taken a walk along the harbour and though the town for tea. I am quite excited to find that the Te Papa (Our Land) museum is open until the dizzyingly late hour of 9pm tomorrow night. And it's free, so we just have got to visit. Tomorrow we explore Wellington further. Tonight we're doing some laundry.

... WOW = World of Wearable Arts. The show was amazing check out the site
Visited Te Papa the national museum of NZ, awesome! so much to see so little time! Place to go! Didn't a manic Willy Wonka say something along those lines?
Traveled up the cable car and checked out the tulip festival in the ...

... particularly interesting and their charity shops were rubbish. It had been very cold at nights so I thought I could pick up an extra layer which would do me for a few weeks and then get ditched but folks in Northland must hold on to their clothes and only part with them when they should be going in the bin. Eventually I managed to find a lovely Fair Isle patterned cardigan - you will just have to take my word for it as it will not be appearing in any photographs and will ...

... own private room. After dinner, we went out to this outdoor bar at the restaurant. They called it a garden bar. Steph and I hung out all night. We met two guys, (one from italy and one from Israel.) It was fun talking to them, but steph and I went around and met some others. They definitely "take a **** at you" aka make fun of me. It is supposed to be a good thing though. I learned all about rugby that night! Well... kinda. That sport really is a religion over ...

... Bye bye North Island and thanks for the 90 Mile Beach, Rainbow Warrier, Bay of Island, Jon & Robyn, Rotorua, White Island and Art Deco Napier and off to something completely different. The Sailing took 3 hours and was lovely, all smooth sailing and beautiful views, especially when we got into Marlborough Sounds, the gateway to the South Island. We landed in Picton, checking into the nicest backpackers, The Villa, and chilled, getting ready for our 7:30 ...

... now that I think about it but I wasn't thinking at the time. So we had to go back to the house and get appropriate gear but we did eventually make it kayaking.  The wind was still blowing today but apparently not enough to keep us off the water.  It was a great work out.  There was only one incident that we decided to blame on Helen.  She suggested that we go along the beach.  Well we got caught in ...

... find and not signposted, but luckily the Tourist Information in Oamaru was very helpful and gave us good directions. We walked down to the hidey hole which supplied 4 binoculars to use and could see 3 penguins on the beach and one on the rocks. One was a younger penguin, and ill and one of the older penguins was beating it up with its beak and pushing it down. It finally fell down and didn't get back up for awhile. There were also sea ...

... more nights because I'm gonna visit a friend that I don't know yet - just by Facebook, because it's a friend of a friend in Munich. Let's see if she's worth it that I stay several nights there and that I have this fix date which I couldn't change because she took some days off just because I'm coming... I don't know... I don't have a good feeling... (And I really hated the situation some days ago when I wanted to stay longer at Queenstown for example, but were not able to...)

... me "Beeth"
Saw a cool show- Maui
Had a lot of jet-lag
Took a boat to this island that had lots of sheep. There were some baby sheep-so cute!
Went out for sushi, also got octopus balls (balls of octopus, not something else)
Had a 5-year-old birthday with Chelsea and a few others, where I was introduced to fairy bread (bread with butter and rainbow sprinkles on it)
Multiple nature reserves (saw giant bug in a ...