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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Getting to Christchurch

After we went to the museum in Wellington we walked a few blocks to a Turkish place for dinner. They have really good Turkish food here in New Zealand. There was an amazing one in Mt. Maunganui (but of course we had to leave). We had our Turkish food and walked around for a while before getting in the car to search for a hotel. Daddy found a really nice one that was so high end that he had to get us a room with only two beds in it so it was affordable. I don’t think I could count how many time we have all told him that it doesn’t matter if the hotel is a 4 star if half of us have to sleep on the floor! We got up early to catch the ferry the next morning and the kids went down to find breakfast. It turns out there was a really good free breakfast buffet there but we couldn’t eat it because we had to catch the ferry. We drove on the boat and sat around for a while before we could get out of the car, and then we waited another half hour or so before we actually started moving. We totally should have stayed for breakfast….

We spent the two hour ferry ride watching extremely repetitive infomercials and reading magazines. There is seriously a channel on TV devoted entirely to infomercials! There was one for Proactiv and one for this steamcleaner thing. They just played those two over and over again until mommy asked the lady if she could change the channel. There was a cool playground for Kayley and Sarah on the lower level but it was freezing down there so we didn’t stay long.

When we got to the South Island we waited in the car some more before we got out of the ferry garage. We drove for a while until we got to Christchurch. Along the way we saw a ton of damage caused by the earthquakes that they have been having for the last year. It was pretty crazy.
~mia

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