Heading to Wellington

On 15th July Arnica and Remco returned from their holiday and after lunch we headed out of Hikutaia, leaving them to their jetlag. Cliff had visited the doctor in the morning and found out that the pain and bruising he's been experiencing is because of shin splints. So no running for him for a while and he'll have to get some new running shoes when we get the US (too expensive here) as he's actually worn the old ones out.

We spent an uneventful and cold night back in the van at Lake Taupo.

We got to Wellington the next day and really liked it. The last time we were here we didn't spend very long, but we had a couple of nights this time. It's quite a small city for a capital but it has a nice feel to it, unlike Auckland which is a bit of a sprawl. Liam went and bought his first deck of Magic - The Gathering cards (lots more on all that later I expect).

The guide book says there is a tattoo museum in town which we were up for visiting because they were meant to have some real back skins (with tattoos on them) - that all sounds a bit gross when I actually write it down. It turns out that it was closed down. So we went to see Toy Story 3 instead.

Before catching the Inter Islander ferry to the South Island, we stopped for a small pizza.