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| collecting shells on Peka Peka Beach, just outside Wellington |
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| Till flies down a Wellington slide....and Harry finds a garden centre named in his honour hee hee! |
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| Gold Class baby, oh yeah |
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| just like Hollywood....I like Wellington's sign better! |
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| a view of Wellington's hills |
We spent the best part of a day checking out Wellington. Like most good cities, there was a smorgasbord of activities on offer.
First up we visited Peter Jackson's WETA workshop. Our tour guide Matt took us through the processes of costume and set design, special effects and character creation. It was an in depth behind the scenes look at movie making. Our tour guide Matt was definitely passionate about movie production, which came through in his tour.
Once in the city centre, we needed to find a suitable place to park our van for the day, as well as for the night. As luck would have it, an overnight parking station designed for motorhomes is situated right next to the ferry terminal. I won't gloss it up, it's literally a city car park with a security coded access only toilet-shower block. Sometimes location is paramount, and the proximity this car park had to everything made this spot a winner! We parked there all day and over night for just fifty dollars. Great value for safe, highly convenient city parking! With our van parked safely out of harms way, we took to the city on foot.
After learning about Maori culture at Wellington's famous museum, Te Papa, we gave our muscles a workout at the nearest ten pin bowling centre. After a few games of bowls we rested our tired walking legs in a movie cinema. Ben surprised us with Gold Class tickets for Despicable Me 2 in 3D. It was the first time myself and the kids had ever watched a 3D movie. It was also the first time we'd ever sat in comfy Gold Class too. I think viewing movies in over-sized armchairs might be the way to go...now I'm spoilt forever!
On the way back to the van we caught the cable car up to the botanic gardens for a quick nighttime view of Wellington. It was very pretty.
That night we were lulled to sleep by the sounds of 4 lanes of traffic humming along next to us. There were sirens and trucks, all the usual city soundtracks - not to mention that the ferry dock kicked into life around 2am. Ah the serenity! We didn't mind, honest. It was just one night!
8 comments:
Hi Michelle, Loving the new look of your blog and enjoying your NZ travels. We went to Auckland for a week in May this year, it is an easy place to go with young children your trip was more adventure bound than ours as our main purpose was to visit friends. I was looking for an email address for you...can you email me as I want to ask you about participating in something on my blog thanks! nikkifisher@iprimus.com.au x
Hi Michelle - I have just discovered your blog, and as a NZer I am enjoying your tour of our country. Also enjoying the snippets of your life on Norfolk Island.
Thanks for reading along Julie. We loved New Zealand so much and are planning another trip for next year!
Off to email you right now Nikki :)
Gold class is certainly a bit of fun, haven't taken the girls yet they might enjoy it too much;) The view of Wellington's hills is really beautiful, New Zealand is on the list of places to go one day. Love your new blog header too Michelle. Have a great week. x
Ha ha...yep, hold off on the Gold Class!!!!!!! You have a great week too x
sounds about as noisy as our house at night...was anybody yelling abba for 5 hours straight? (Tilly's favourite and most regular night time activity!) loving your trip updates xxxx
No...but I LOVE ABBA. LOL...now I'm visualising your Tilly singing when she's supposed to be going to sleep!!
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