So after the Lord of the Rings tour and our not schnitty schnitzel, we headed out to find a cool t shirt shop (which we missed in our hunger) and stopped by this funny street performer.... He spent like 30 minutes getting these two guys to put a straight jacket on him, then put a burning hat on his head (funny - but not too impressive after kicking it up a bunch of times and being unable to catch, he just got it ont he ground upset down, smooshed his head inside and then stood up - bet even I could do that!) um after that he just got outta the straight jacket and swallowed a sword!
Next me and Chrissy went off in search of the Tattoo Museum! We were super keen on that because in Auckland we saw a road sign for MOTAT and thought it was a museum of Mo's and tat's. It was not. Museum of Transport and Technology - not even close! Anyways we finally get to the location of the tattoo museum and it is actually a building site! Tiring walk too! Anyways I find a man to ask and then we head to the new tattoo museum ... got really excited coz we were headed towards Brooklyn and I was like, Dammit, wish i had red Nike hightops and was listening to hip hop - but i wasn't! Anyways after walking past it and back we finally get to the Tattoo Museum. A more descriptive name would be "A dusty room with folders of information about tattoos' Although people would still be disappointed when they found a tiny dusty room, and the folders were the kind you put your school assingments in and had information printed off the net and pictures ripped out of OK magazine. The lady was like, um, sorry its disappointing and gave us a free 2010 calendar... which will be really useful for the next two months!
After that we just got ready for - the FOOTBALL! Four Nations - Nz vs England. We got a taxi - even though the hotel lady thinks I am super lazy! Um football was good - was excited to wear my jersey. It was a bit of an experience where I was torn there. I got there and it was Jnr Kiwis vs. Jnr Aussies and I just couldn't cheer against the green and gold so I put my NZ flag down (which I had to buy a new one coz of the sitting on the old one thing) and was the lone person clapping when the Aussies scored and won!
After that I was all set to cheer on the Kiwis (after the amazing Haka) but then I saw Slammin' Sam Burgess in his jersey and I couldn't cheer against him (maybe things would of been different if Kearney had started Isaac Luke) so I put my flag down again (which I had also managed to break) and cheered on England. They hadn't even scored in the first half so I went and bought an England flag (sorry NZ) and cheer like a fool when Enlgand scored in the second.... And OMG i found someone more dangerous with a flag than i am.It took forever for my brother to buy me a flag and he still confiscates it at certain points of the game where I get a bit too over excited but this woman hit me and i was two rows back... me and chrissy were in fear for our lives. Anyways now I'm torn for who to go for in the Four Nations! Anyways - the Kiwis won, of course, which I was still happy about!!!
OMG and on the way back I found a Bunny St... can't not love a place with a bunny street.
We were going to go out after but weren't really feeling it so much so we just headed back for a quiet one at the hotel.... The wonderful marvelous hotel with couches and comfy beds and a massive bathroom and all the luxuries we had been missing!
oh and i phoned home to make sure the footy was being recorded for me and to say hi and all of that. It was nice to talk to home and be insulted by my little brother! Miss the family! and my brother put the phone on loud speaker so i could talk to Miley! Miss my dogs!
um this morning we had the biggest sleep in ever and then headed off to do the Cable Car and also the botanical gardens and some more shopping.
So after some shopping we got on a Cable Car, had the Over My Head (Cable Car) song all ready to go so I listened to that - and the Cable Car was again different to what i thought it was when i knew it wasnt a rollercoaster, but at least i finally know what it actually is! Life can be made way difficult when your head invents something that doesnt exist. Like my head invented you could eat dinner in a cable car, but everyone i asked was like, um no? but off track! So we got the cable car to and paid the man (and he was just lovely - clearly we were confused so he discreetly pointed so we wouldnt look like idiots - we still did, but he tried) and rode the Cable Car to the botanic gardens... and almost missed our stop. Anyways its like 1 o clock by htis time and we haven't eaten so we are thinking with our stomachs (maybe not so new and different but honestly - we were imaginating food) so we head across to the Cable Car Museum - super quickly! we took some photos but i didnt plan on learning much on this trip so i skipped the reading and the learning about cable cars and bought a stuffed kiwi instead. After the cable car museum we went to the Skyline Restaurant for lunch - which we even investigated online before hand to make sure the food would be amazing. And guess what? Closed! un be lievable!!!
So we headed through the botanic gardens which were actually really beautiful! i'm a bit surprised because Canberra Botanic Gardens is like a whole bunch of bush and a little bit of rainforest and a cool echindna. In Wellington there are so many cool trees and pretty flowers and, being New zealand, no creepy snakes or spiders so the embarrassing 'scream and jump into someones arms because they are mean and pretend there is a spider in a tree' situation.Hmm - we kinda rushed through the park in desperation to get to the cafe butwent and took plenty of photos and saw the duckpond and smelled some flowers before finally eating. We headed out after that - which you have to do via a cemetary - totally creepy btw.
Anyway I found something super exciting in our Wellington travel guide - an ad for a MALL! OMG, when I saw it, it was like all my christmases had come at once! And Chrissy hardly needs to be convinced when it comes to shopping - we have been deprived of proper shopping malls and Cooper St. the whole time we have been in New Zealad. so this mall was supposed to be on Bunny St so we tried to find it, but lazy ness prevailed so we got in a taxi, which was totally lucky, coz apparently they are not too creative with street names in Wellington, there is a Bunny St in the city and one in Lower Hutt! But the taxi driver was a total gem - he showed us all the sites on the way (old church, library, law school, beehive, not beehive for the opposition, place iwth puppets of politicians) and after a $45 taxi ride (lucky we got lazy coz there is no chance we would have survived a walk that long!) we were finally at the Mall! and the taxi driver assured us it was the biggest one in the area!
So after a Starbucks to calm the excitment, we headed inside. Our eyes lit up! It was a magical moment, although to be honest it was more Tuggeranong Hyperdome and Canberra Cantre, and beggars can't be choosers. We left a lot poorer than we arrived but we were super happy with our haul. Probably not an exciting addition to the blog, but we do love to shop. and the lovely taxi driver showed us where to catch and bus and told us which bus to catch and where to get off, so we had a much cheaper ride home.
So, i am not normally someone who gets excited by buses, but if a bus was a sandwich, Wellington buses would be gourmet! The bus had like tvs, which showed weather forecasts, and news, (about Isaac Luke too!) and security footage of us on the bus, and plane arrivals! It was an amazing bus!
um, after that we went to Oriental Bay for dinner - coz we are trying to watch the sun set over the ocean (Wellington is so not the place). Anyways the hotel lady who thinks we are lazy said it wouldnt be long so we should walk... after an hour of walking we gossively disappointed by the stupid Oriental Bay which was not exciting and had no dinner and just got a cab into Courtenay Place. The taxi driver was also very nice, pointed out some xcellent dinner places like subway and keybabs!
Um other than that we just headed to the movies to watch 'Life as we Know it' - so cute and funny but i cried twice....
Tomorrow we are leaving Wellington, saying goodbye to the North Island (until Sunday) and heading off to Picton or probably Nelson for the WOW museum. Cannot wait to be a fairy on the ferry!
Wellington showed me and Chrissy the love today, and we did have some great fun and experiences here, but Wellington and us had more of an awkward friendship than an amazing love affair like the rest of the north island.
And the home countdown is now in single digits....
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