Warmth and Children....

We have arrived in Wellington to stay a little while with my cousin Lara and her family (Her husband Sven, their four boys; Ike - 8, Joe - 6, Abe - 4, and Ezra a.k.a Bubba - 2, dog Friday, cat Mouse - the cat is called mouse in case anyone is confused - and horses Rocket and Ash) which is awesome, great to spend some time with my little cousins! Though I must say that Bohdi is much more popular than I am, as you would expect...teenage boys are so captivating to little boys, he practically has three little adoring shadows (Bubba is a little young to mind about gender yet). Lara has been really helpful, offering to pay us an hourly rate to do some jobs around the house, as we were keen for some work at some point on the journey to replenish our funds somewhat. And the digs are just fantastic, as we have our own little self-contained flat above the garage to hang out in.

So it has been a great few days here so far, hanging out with the kids, and doing some work round here, including babysitting Bubba for a bit today, which is hardly work at all really, he's adorable!

Yesterday we headed into Wellington for the first time (Lara and Sven's is quite a way out of town), leaving then car in FREE parking in Plimmerton, which is near their house, and taking the train from Plimmerton to the city. Our first stop was the Museum of Wellington (entered into purely because of the fact that it is FREE), which was basically just the history of the city, but pretty cool all the same. Then it was on to "Te Papa" which is the museum of New Zealand, and is also FREE!! It's actually quite surprising that it is free because there is some really awesome stuff going on in there, from volcano exhibitions to a giant squid! Also, it contains the skeleton of Phar Lap, which was one of the things I do remember about visiting then museum last time my family came over. Then after scoffing down some lunch we headed off to the movies to see Transformers! Which was Awesome! Really really really long, but cool all the same. Then we dragged our exhausted little selves all the way back to the train  station and headed back to Lara's. 

So today we pretty much just spent the day doing stuff around here, and hanging out with Bubba which is really fun as he is just an awesome little character.

Not much has really happened apart from that since we last posted...So I guess we will let you know when something else does, and as far as our plans, well we think we will probably spend the weekend here with the kids, then off to the South Island on the Ferry.

More Soon, 

xoxox

 

(oh yeah just wanted to thank Issy for the plug on her travel blog - she is in Canada at the moment, if you wanna check it out click here, her blogging was what gave us the idea!)