We arrived at our hostel "around the world" and we had booked a room called the "love shack!" It was a cabin in the garden! It was small! Luke felt a little closed in! But we had a fridge and a tv! This was now the highlights in our lives! The hostel was ok, the staff were amazing the facilities not so amazing ! It wasn't as clean as we like! We spent our free day exploring the city or what was left of it! It was like a ghost town here since the earthquake in 2010 it was quite sad actually and we couldn't believe how little had been done, there were many listed buildings almost destroyed and a lot of the CBD was gone it was no surprise it was taking so long to rebuild, we had heard that there were many disputes about certain rebuilds. 
In the center of town they had built this thing called the restart mall, it was shops that had been made out of shipping containers! It was great, and as we walked around. there was many Chrismassy things going on, carol singing, decorations everywhere, lovely little food stalls it was pretty much the most Xmas stuff we had seen since we had been here ! Although it was. Ice to see that it was still very clear and you could clearly see all the damage that had been done roads were closed, buildings were half there and half not! A lot of work had been done to use and recycle objects and make them into actor actions for the community and tourists it was very clever and there was a lot of artists that had created the most wonderful graffiti on some of the walls which was cool to see!
We had enjoyed the CBD and were now off to the supermarket to get some Xmas food, and to go to the warehouse to try to get Luke another hat! It was a twenty minute walk and as we walked we walked passed a Denny's! We decided we would have a meal there later after our shopping to treat ourselves! We havnt eaten out for ages and we needed a Xmas treat! And it was so cheap in there! We went to the warehouse and got what we needed and had a look in rebel sport as they had a big sale in there......and we ended up finding a telescopic fishing rod with a reel! Just what Luke had been looking for! For the rest of our trip! As we can fish at the sea for free it was a free all day activity for us to do in many locatins all up the east coast of oz and fiji! Luke thought he would only get the rod and would have to buy the reel seperately but this was just exactly wha we were looking for and it was strong and seemed to tick all the boxes for Luke! So we bought it a Xmas treat for Luke and there was 20% off it! It was very exciting that we could now look forward of fishing in oz! Anyway I have spoke about the rod enough now! We had a Lovely meal at Denny's and headed back for a rest and to research more on oz!
The next day we decided to be adventurous and catch the bus to our next hostel which was haka lodge it wasn't far away - a couple of miles away but to far to walk with all our bags, we arrived and couldn't check in until later so chilled out wrote the last of the postcards, caught up on the blog.
When we could checked in we investigated our room which was lovely, we had a tv and DVD player which we watched my skydiving dvd on! Lovely balcony however unfortunately it was now that we realised we wouldn't be alto get internet over Xmas :( I was devastated and upset can't believe I couldn't talk to my family on Xmas day and I wouldn't be able to see chester and Millie's little faces either :( and so annoyed as we had more accomodation to book in oz :( Was already a little upset about no being home and with family for Xmas and about missing all the lovely Xmas food! I knew me and Luke would have a lovely Xmas but I was really missing all the Xmas food and the ability to wish everyone merry christmas! Anyway I didn't stay upset to long Luke gave me some cuddles and I wrapped his little gifts and felt a bit better! I cooked a lovely meal for us and we watched all the Xmas programs that were on and films ......it felt very festive again :)
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