Monday, April 10, 2006

New Plymouth 23rd - 24th Jan 2006

Our last stop on our holidays was New Plymouth, to see Mount Taranaki. Unfortunately, the weather didn't co-operate and the mountain was mostly covered in cloud. We stayed in a very nice hostel in the town, called Sunflower Lodge (as far as I can remember). The manager there told us that there was a free jazz concert in the park as part of their festival of lights, so we went along to that. It was really lovely there, as they had the park all lit up and there was lots of music and people wandering around enjoying the warm summer evening. The water features in particular were very well done.

The next morning, however, was not so pleasant. We were greeted with pouring rain when we got up, and decided that a fun way to spend the morning would be to go to the cinema. So there we were at 10am off to the movies... strange but true. We saw "Fun with Dick and Jane", which is a comedy parodying the Enron debacle, and it was actually a pretty good giggle.

We then hit the road to Wellington, stopping at Wanganui along the for lunch. That happened to be the day of the NZ premier of 'The River Queen', so the red carpet was out in Wanganui, along with a number of people in period costume as part of the celebrations. (Took a wee while for me to work that one out I can tell you).

Once we were back in Wellington, we got ourselves foddered and ended the holiday with a game of Trivial Pursuit (Famliy Edition) with Gen's housemate, Liz (we're such party animals, really). Early the next morning I got the ferry back to the Mainland and drove back to Christchurch, where I needed some quality time away from the front seat of my car...

posted by Maz @ 6:02 pm

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