Carly, Anna, Drew and I planned a quick 5 day trip to the capital, Wellington. We planned to stay with our friend from orientation, Charlie, for 2 nights but he ended up offering for us to stay for all 5 which was great because we saved money and had somewhere and someone to hang out with! We were pretty worn out after the last 3 weeks of traveling and took the 5 days pretty easy. We walked down town a few of the days and tried to do one floor of the museum, Te Papa, a day. We saw Oriental Bay and walked down the main streets of downtown. We went out to eat a couple times and had delicious kebabs. One day we watched Charlie get a tattoo, which was pretty fun! I’d never even been in a tattoo place before. We also hiked up Mt. Victoria (which sounds a lot more intense than it actually was it took us about 15 minutes.... but they did call it a mountain), and went to the botanic gardens, which were beautiful. A couple of the days we just hung around the house with Charlie and his flatmates who were all really nice and welcoming. We also took advantage of their oven and made brownies! (since we don’t have an oven in our flats)
We also managed to watch almost a whole season of gossip girl in the two days where the weather was so bad that we didn’t want to leave the house. It ended up working out great because it was nice to be in another part of the country but not feel like we had to go a million places a day. It was an awesome last week of break. I think we were all ready to go back to Christchurch, our own beds, and maybe even class after 4 weeks of spring break!
The day we got back we had a volunteer day with Butler. We planted trees at Travis Wetland to help restore the eco system of the marsh. It was a really fun day and nice to be outside, enjoying the weather and volunteering with Kiwis. I loved it.
The view from Mount Vic
Charlie's tattoo! I asked the man about a million questions it was so interesting to hear about the worst tattoo's he ever gave and stuff like that!
Oriental Bay
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