We have had an amazing time visiting the South Island, and also a few days in the North at Wellington to mainly visit the WETA workshop. On Saturday the 29th Nov we flew up to Wellington for a few days to have a look about and visit the WETA workshop. Wellington did live up to its reputation of being windy. Its a nice city built around a harbor. Most things are easy walking distance from the city centre. We took a few walks along the harbor. Elizabeth wanted to try what they call white bait. It looks like worms with eyes. It was cooked with egg. Neither of us were a great fan of this. We took the cable car up the mountain to see the sights and buy more souvenirs :). Our main objective was to visit the WETA workshop who have lots of special effects and prosthetics used in films such as LOTR. The shop was amazing with lots of expensive models but also prints and other items at reasonable rates. We had orders from family for few things and we also purchased a couple...
Tomorrow we say goodbye to Christchurch and make our way to Wellington. Our final 3 days here have been a bit of a see-saw with fun and relaxing. Robbie had his final 2 games of cricket. Alas his team did not get into the finals played off for 5th 6th, but lots of lovely memories and memorable events. Highlights from the cricket - he bowled the final over in one of these matches, one resulted in his team winning. He had 8 runs to play with and ended up with a wicket and 3 runs off it. A lot of pressure in the last over. Also got run out with direct hit during the match. He bowled a couple of overs in the last match and took a wicket from 3 overs. Lunch apparently was not a highlight, but I enjoyed the fruit that came home after each game. 😉 Not great for the price we had to pay Dinner each night at the Christchurch Casino, courtesy of some vouchers that were provided to all players and their accompanying spouses....