For three days and two nights we visited "Windy Welly" the capitol of New Zealand. Average wind speed about 51 kms per hour, before the politicians arrived in the "beehive" pictured (having trouble getting the right paragraph by a particular picture). But the city has gardens and views. Cable cars, twisting streets and gardens. Good food - like lamb shanks at Mac's Brewery, good seafood and pasta at One Red Dog, and a breakfast at Lido's of French toast presented with a kind of country bacon covered by carmelized banana covered (next layer) by thick syrup.For the "touristy" part of day one, we went to "Te Papa" the museum which highlights the geology, artistry and Maori heritage of the area. Impressive 5 story museum. Got to museum overload after 1.5 floors but had apportioned the time to see the local natural history and Maori stuff that most interested.
Our second day was sunny and less breezy with views from the top of the botanical gardens reached by cable car and Mt Victoria reached by public bus.
Next day we went to Wellywood where some of the special effects for Lord of the Rings were produced.
For all this trip, the car was left at home; and we took public bus etc. Mary did the planning and I followed. No problems driving left sided!
Hi! Sounds like you had a great time in Wellington. The pictures and scenery is beautiful. New Zealand looks like it is really beautiful country. Are you both more comfortable, now, with driving on the left side of the road? Do you have the coffee dowm ''pat'' now? Is it as good, or better, than American coffee? We went to the music part of the pot luck supper in the dining hall, last night. They had a man who played the organ[he played with Liberace, Lawrence welk, and some of the other older performers years ago.] and he was really good. He had lots of different sounds ,with the songs he played, and he was very good. Today we went to '' the president's coffee'', that we have once a month,and, afterwards they had a chiropractic dr. there, that also believed in natural medicine, and she gave us some very interesting thoughts and ideas. We are doing good. We're going to CRACKLE BARREL for supper tonight with Helen and George Mc Callum. Sure miss you both being here but we know you're having a wonderful time there. Sunday[datewise- the 24th] we will be married 3 months. Time has gone by so fast,it seems. We are really happy and thank God for each other. We saw Barbara in church Wed. night, and she seemed to be feeling better. Marybeth, you dad did a great job on the info about the Islams and their beliefs. I know he did oodles of research for it. Hope you both find a church there that you both like, and feel comfortable in.I imagine it's hard to be in a strange country and find a church like you've been used to, at home. Have a wonderful week-end and God bless you both. Miss you and love you,Faith and Raymond/dad
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