Today has been AMAZING!! Have been on the go non-stop. Woke up at 8:30, packed my bag and grabbed breakfast on the way to Te Papa Museum. This is New Zealand's main museum and it is OUSTANDING!! There is so much stuff in there - you could spend hours inside. I tried not to spend longer than two hours there though because I knew that i had so much to see. Grabbed a circular bus timetable which stops at all the main attractions and decided that instead of catching ...

Early wake-up today to catch the bust at 8am! We drove through all sorts of little towns on the way to Wellington and stopped at Flat Hills Restaurant for lunch. (Don't ask me why they call it that...it is anything but flat!) We drove past Mt. Ruapehu but couldn't see it because the cloud was too low! It is apparently very beautiful - we could just see the base. The mountain to the right of that is the one used in the Lord of the Rings as Mt. Doon. We stopped a f...