I need to get through these a lot faster! The good news is that we have made it to the North Island!
After a pretty comfy trip on the ferry across Cook Strait and ended up in lovely Wellington -- one of the most pleasant surprises of the trip. After spending so many days in the quiet and sparsely populated western coast of the South Island, it was nice to be in a bustling city. Especially one that was as beautiful as Wellington...
We walked to the "eat street" and grabbed a delicious meal (note: eating out in New Zealand is incredibly affordable!). The next morning, we walked over to the awesome Te Papa, the National Museum and learned a ton about the Maori culture, the geological history of New Zealand, and even saw the "colossal squid" specimen with eyes the size of soccer balls...it totally looked like something out of Independence Day.
(This thing was HUGE)
Being in NZ's capital, we had to make the trek over to Parliament and Man Boo was in political geek heaven. We took a tour through the different government buildings and learned a ton about NZ's political workings. We even learned that one of the sitting members of Parliament was a former Minnesotan by way of California.
(Lunch at a Chippery near our hotel which was awesome. And L&P, the "Inca Kola" of NZ)
Stopped at Huka Falls which was pretty spectacular -- a huge volume of water flowing through a pretty narrow waterfall. Apparently the water flows at such a fast rate that it could fill an Olympic-sized pool in 11 seconds...
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