Wellington, New Zealand

Hello!

So we're in Wellington now. I can't really remember what we did in our last few days in Sydney, apart from climb the Harbour Bridge! That was pretty memorable. As you can see from the picture we got to wear a really sexy jumpsuit for the experience. High fashion indeed. The climb we did is a new one called the Discovery Climb. Basically you walk/climb up the lower arch until you hit the road, and then get onto the upper arch to climb to the top for the obligatory cheesy photo =) Definitely hairy at times. I can't imagine what it would've been like actually working on building it and not being roped on. We both had a fantastic time wandering around up there with our roommate Dan.

... and then we left Oz! Sob! However, here we are in Wellington and absolutely loving it. Completely different from Oz. Colder for a start (we've both just bought hoodies, and it seems the old board shorts might be remaining in our bags for a while!), but that's probably because it's so windy here! Both loving the city, it's fantastic just to wander around in and people watch. We haven't done too much apart from that yet, although we spent a wonderful few hours in the Te Papa museum getting very excited about the only Colossal Squid specimen on display in the world. Mmm cephalopod-tastic!

I've been in touch with a local Goju-Ryu karate club and am off to train with the Chief Instructor for NZ in a special dan grade class on Sunday which should be good. 4 months of doing nothing might hinder my fitness somewhat but I'm looking forward to it! I've also sent an email to the president of the NZ Northumbrian Pipers Society (such a thing does indeed exist!) but I haven't heard back yet so we'll see if anything comes of that. I'm sure that would completely melt my brain =)

We're not entirely sure of our plans past this next week or so. We're getting prepared for the arrival of Tomek on 31st and then my parents two weeks later, so plans are being made to fit around that. For the moment we're happy hanging out here. At the moment it looks like we'll be moving into Lisa's flat on Tuesday (thank you!) with the help of her wonderful mum Anne (thank you!) and then we'll take it from there.

Hope the weather is picking up at home!

Katy x