Wellington Intermission

From Christchurch I flew up to Wellington for the weekend, where Roxane and I spent a nice relaxing weekend walking around, eating, and meeting the friends she’s made up there.

I went for a run in Wellington’s botanical gardens, which are lovely.  For the first time I actually saw some tuis.  I’ve heard them constantly throughout my hike, but they aren’t “friendly” like the fantail or black robin, so they’re always just out of sight in the foliage.

We went to Te Papa, the national museum of New Zealand.  It had a lot of great natural history exhibits.  There was a cool multiuser interactive display called “The Wall” that Roxane and Sarah and I spent a while playing with.  And there was a great exhibit on Maori culture, and on the Waitangi Treaty, which is generally considered New Zealand’s founding document.

Roxane was again dismayed at the amount of weight I’ve lost, but the pace has slowed.  I think with all the eating I did in town I put at least a few of those pounds back on, though.