Wellington - the capital city !

Our journey to wellington was around 4 hours but the scenary was so nice that you hard.y noticed the time go by and also the driver let all of us put our skydive DVDs on so that was good, it was really fun watching everyone else's ! And it also made us realise that we made the right choice getting the full package as you really need both angles !

So we arrived to our hostel "wellington YHA!" And were pleased it was right on the harbour and right next to new world supermarket :) bonus ! We checked in smoothly was given our free wifi vouchers for being members and went in search for our room....it was on the 5th floors thank god it had a lift! The room was small but fine for us :)

We decided we world go to the supe market and get some supply's and chill out for the evening, we ended up getting dominos pizza ! It was only $5 can't really go wrong!

The next day it was raining :( so we decided to go to the museum - it was the national museum of New Zealand and it was pretty good ! It was huge and had lots of interactive things for us to play on :)......

.....a blue whales heart....the actual size of it! Luke got inside it!

......a huge globe showing the earths plates and where they are located ......we are 

So lucky in England that we are not sitting on any 2 plates that join together. 

......a table with 6 squares with Maori music and you can press as many as you can to here the music together it was fun!

We ended up being I. The museum for 4 hours! We went back and cooked ourselves some dinner and caught up with family and friend via skype and FaceTime :)

The  ext day it was also raining :( but it was on and of so we decided to venture out and explore the town :) there is lots of lovely little shops and street sigh odd things down them.....

 ......this was a little odd! There was also a street called "Luke's lane!!!"

........ How appropriate!

We went in search of some parliament buildings.....

 And then wellingtons cathedral ...

........we then found old St. Paul's ......

........it was getting late by this point so we decided to walk along th harbour front back to our hostel, it was a nice walk with a nice view.....

 

......it was a lovely day :)))

The next day which was our last full day in wellington city it was raining even harder all day :( but we really wanted to go up the cable car to see the views so we wonder edit trough the town on the way picking up my new walking shoes :))) there were a absolute bargain! I had to ring the bank of dad to purchase them tho! My old ones were literally falling Apart :( and we hadn't budgeted to buy new walking shoes :( we thought these ones were originally $280 down to $89.99! And they were super comfy :) so I purchase those and walked out in them! Thanks daddy :))

We got to the cable car and paid our $7 return fare to Kelburn and got on this old fashioned cable car, the view was good on the way up and at the top. It or was raining and over cast so it wasn't the best, we went to the cable car museum it was really small but very interesting! There are over 400 private cable cars being used in wellington ! There are so many hills  and houses that are built on them that the residents need a Cable car to get there, some of the couples we older and couldn't manage the steep climb to there home, some people were sick of carrying bags of shopping up hills and one couple had a couple of dogs one was really old and couldn't manage the stairs so they got a cable car for there dog! Another family with a dog that goes to dog day care send the dog Down in the cable car to be 

Ickes up for his day care! It was soooo cute:) wew really wanted to look around the botanical gardens but it was raining so hard it would not have been fun :( so we went back down and had a Browse around the shops before heading back to the hostel for dinner- Luke made the best pasta dish :) it was so scrummy :)

 

 

 

Tomorrow we take the interislander ferry Kaitaki to the South Island and we have to be up early :)