We spent Monday at Woodford House helping Rachel to clear out her stock room and Tuesday in Hastings Christmas shopping.
The first final assembly at the kid's school was cancelled 3 minutes after it started due to heavy rain,(it was outside!) so we attended the second on Tuesday evening in the hall and watched Jack collect his leaving certificate.
Wednesday at 1pm saw us collect the children in two cars to drive to Wellington. The trip was OK after a slight directional error was corrected and we arrived at the highly rated YHA hostel about 6.30pm. The next day saw us at Te Papa the remarkable National Museum after which we took the famous cable car to the Botanical Gardens with remarkable views and an excellent free cable car museum. Wellington is well known for it's public cable car but also for a number of private ones ascending from Oriental Parade and it's modern trolleybuses all being less than two years old. The weather was quite windy in the evenings so we had to wrap up a bit for a stroll.
We left the YHA in good time to visit the Weta Cave which displays the special effestc from Peter Jackson's films such as Lord of the Rings and then travel home via Paraparoumu where we met Bill's remarkable 90 year old Aunty Ruth in her retirement village. It was an easy trip back from there.
Saturday saw us doing project work before taking the kids to a free performance of Amahl and the Night Visitors at Hastings Opera House in the evening.
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