Wellington!

Okay, so it's been awhile since I've updated. It's because I've been waiting for my wellington pictures (well, some of them at least...) to be uploaded onto the inter-ama-net. AND I did have them updated only to have work block Blogger for some reason.

Grrr...

SO annoyed about that right now. They're blocking all the sites that keep me entertained when it's quiet.

Did I mention that the trip was awesome and we had a great time?? It's a week ago now. Craziness. It feels like forever ago.

But yes. It was very, VERY cool. And VERY fun. Yay!!! So...I bring you the condensed version of our trip:

Picton harbour on the way out to Wellington. Isn't it gorgeous! We had fantastic weather on the way out. Unfortunately the further into Cook Strait we got the choppier it was. Hence not a very smooth crossing. So not-smooth in fact that the boy had to use a sick bag. Ew...but we managed. On the way back he had sea-sickness stuff and I refused to let him eat. Which is a whole 'nother

story really!
Anyway...we went the to Wellington Art Gallery. Which was quite cool. They had a number of rather interesting exhibits going on which was rather exciting. One rather large private collection as well.

This would be the view of leaving the art gallery. It's like this square-ish area hidden away off Victoria Street in Wellington. (Kinda down the road from where the OfficeMax retail store in Wellington is - yes, I made us walk by, isn't that SAD?????)

It's a very picturesque area though. Especially when you walk to it from the grotty sort of street/city area.

Big silver ball type thing hanging from wires between the buildings. It's actually quite cool. It's all made out of silver ferns. (All very patriotic really...) But it is very cool. And it looks like it took awhile to put it all together. How artistic. And convieniently located outside the art gallery. Wellington is really quite a unique city. I get so used to how flat everything is here in Christchurch. It's like our buildings mirror our landscape and we don't really build big tall buildings etc. But you do see them in Wellington. And it's so much more of a city than Christchurch is. Although I suppose that I'm really used to Christchurch and Wellington is all new and exciting to me. But so many things are just better there. The shopping's pretty good. There's some very very good cafes, with VERY good food. TOO much good food even.

Look!!!!

It's only Te Papa - also known as the national museum of NZ. We went in to check out the LoTR exhibition. (Closing mid August if I'm not wrong) It was awesome. They had all the costumes, some of the models of places like Minas Tirith and props like Aragon's sword and Arwen's Evenstar necklace. AND all the rings of power.

I wanted to take them home with me. NOT because they were rings of power or anything like that...heh heh heh.

We stopped by the harbour/beach to try some self-takes. It took about three tries. AND on top of that Wellington was TOTALLY living up to it's windy city name.

Look at my hair!!!

Lol.

As you can see the niceness of the day wasn't actually that nice. Which was a shame as we could have used a nice day.

Oh well. Haha. The boy looks somewhat sifty. Lol. He's not - too - sifty.

But he was the only one who actually managed to get the self-takes right. I tried quite a few times and it just didn't happen.

This post has been two weeks in the writing and I'll leave you with this now. Haha. Enjoy and I'll let you know the other happenings of the trip at some other stage when Blogger's photo upload thingie-ma-bobbie decides to work itself properly.

It's so cold tonight!!!! Brrrr...