Abe and Erin’s travels

Erin writing – While Abe was at work, I decided to go to a museum that I had not yet gone to yet, the Museum of Wellington City and Sea.  This museum gave a hundred year history of the city, its intimate relationship with the Sea, and social change, including the Maori people.  As usual, it was free and offered some amazing exhibits.  After this, I had lunch on the wharf and people watched.  It is still absolutely amazing to me how many Kiwis run on their lunch hour!  I made my way home because Abe and I had more stuff planned for the evening!

When Abe got home, we caught a taxi and went to do the Red Coastal walk.  This walk takes place on the southern most part of the north island.  As the name indicates, it is a walk along the coast.             that actually ends at a seal colony!  We were not sure if we would see any seals because it is not yet their time to be there.  However, we saw a couple!  Here are some pics! 

    Isn’t this cool?

After we finished our walk, we went to a restaurant close to the house, The Ocean Restaurant.  It sits above the water so as you are eating you feel as though you are floating right above it!  We had fantastic fish and a great dessert.  The chef came out to say hi because he heard that we were from the U.S.  It turns out that he was from New Orleans!  It was a great meal and a great afternoon.

Erin writing-

Today was a kick back day.  After breakfast, we took the bus into the city and went to the Botanic Gardens.  We took the cable car up to the Botanic Gardens.  This is the only public cable car still in working order. 

   

The Botanic Gardens are pretty big and very pretty.  Given that it is the fall, going into winter for them, much of the blooms were gone.  However, we visited a rose garden that was very pretty.

  This is a fountain in the gardens. 

This is the rose garden from an herb garden above it.    Isn’t it beautiful?

There are many silver ferns here in New Zealand.  This picture is of the silver fern as it grows new shoots to unfurl.  This is a common picture and symbol that we have seen throughout our travels.    We have seen this in paintings, pictures, post cards, t-shirts – you get the picture.

After the Botanic Gardens, Abe and I went to a movie, Keeping Mum.  This was a great movie that we were able to watch in a wonderfully comfortable chairs.  We went to dinner and then went home.  Abe got ready to start another week of work!

Erin writing - Abe and I split from the group today and decided to do some hiking.  As I had mentioned before, we got the lowdown on some prime hiking spots from a pharmacist that Abe is working with.  As a ... [Continue reading this entry]

Erin writing -  Well, today was VERY mundane!  Christian and I went to a cafe called "Bayleaf Cafe" in the morning to have breakfast and then visited the Sheepskin Factory.  After this, we walked home and sat around watching TV and ... [Continue reading this entry]

Erin writing - Thursday I spent walking and running throughout Wellington.  One of the pharmacist's that Abe is working with spent some time with me and Abe pointing out the local hikes.  The hike that I did this day was called ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Today Christian and I went shopping after meeting with Julie (our landlord).  After getting square with the rent for the entire stay, we went to my favorite cafe to get chai and a savory.  We bussed it into ... [Continue reading this entry]

Erin writing - Abe's second day of work.  We (Christian and I) split up for the day.  He went to Windy Welly and I just farted around!  I did go to the hospital and meet Abe's preceptor and another pharmacist.  ... [Continue reading this entry]

Erin writing - Abe went to his first day of his internship and I relaxed, or rather did a bunch of running around - literally! While Abe was gone- I completed my long run of 10 miles into Wellington City, along ... [Continue reading this entry]

Erin writing: Sunday was a pretty cool day. We decided that everyone needed to find their respective hospitals and that we would go to the zoo. Luckily, everything is within walking distance so we headed out! ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Abe and I went into the Windy City today (Wellington) to spend time alone. We started along the Parade and waved down a taxi. Before we got the taxi, we came upon a street sign that ... [Continue reading this entry]