It's Thursday evening and we are about cleaned up and packed up ready to leave early tomorrow morning. We are going to drive about 4 hours to Napier (the Art Deco City) on Hawkes Bay on the east coast of the North Island where we will spend the rest of the day and tomorrow night. We are also hoping to stop by and visit an apple orchard and packing plant - this a recommendation of our neighbor Grant who works in the apple industry. On Saturday we will drive about 5 hours to the other part of our exchange in Pauanui - on the Coromandel Penninsula.
We've had a couple of days of intense rain so haven't done much. But today it was bright and sunny and we visited the New Dowse Gallery in Lower Hutt. Had a nice lunch there and saw all of the exhibits. It was a delightful modern museum emphasizing innovative creative arts and crafts.
We've thoroughly enjoyed our stay in the Wellington area and feel quite at home now in New Zealand. The people are very friendly and kind and everyone made us feel very welcome.
Now it's on to more adventures.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
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