Note to all travellers: If it's bright and sunny one day, you should do outdoor activities then. Save the indoor activities for the rainy days. This morning, we awoke to freezing temps and rain. We decided that free attractions were still a good place to start, so we headed for a tour of the parliment building at 12:00. We arrived early to ensure a place in the tour, and found we were the first of what would be a group of 5. Lynn, our tour guide, was famili...

Today we drove down to Wellington, or "Windy Welly" as they call it. When we first arrived, we drove to the top of an over look of the city. New Zealand's capital city, Wellington looks and feels much like San Fransisco with it's hillside houses, museums, and great cafes. The only difference is you can walk from one end of the city to the other in about 10 minutes. After checking into the Wellington YHA hostel, we were out on the town in search of f...