Sunday 11th Nov

As others were doing the White Water Rafting, we didnt have to leave early which meant that we can have more sleep but no later than 10am. We still got to check out from our room. While others were doing the rafting, we just chilled out by booking ourselves for the Sauna at 10.30am. We were in there for at least 45mins. Then we went onto the internet, updating the blog and photos. We were meant to leave at 1pm to go to Wellington but unfortunately the rafting group didn't get back in time. We didn't leave till about 2.30pm which was a rush for the driver to ensure for our arrival in Wellington. We were quite dissapointed cos we were hoping to do the shopping or at least have time to wander around in the city.

Before going to Wellington, we stopped by at the gumboot capital of Taihape and on towards the town of Bulls. The shops had funny names. For example, the police station is named Consta-Bull. We also did bit of food shopping for our tea.

We didn't arrive to Wellington till about 7pm. It was a 5 hours journey from River Valley. It went quick as we were watching the film called Road Trip and luckily for us, we were able to watch it with subtitles.

Once we arrived to our hostel, we managed to get a free night due to us collecting tokens for staying at the same company called Base. We have stayed with them for 6 nights in different region, entitling us to have 7th night for free. We then bought a ferry ticket to get to South Island for tomorrow morning.

We were too tired to do bit of cooking so we decided to be naughty and treated ourselves a Domino Pizza. It was yummy and very filling.

We just stayed in our hostel room, going on the internet to continue the blog and photos to get it out of the way before getting too behind, costing us money! We didn't get to sleep till about 12.30am!!