Wellington, what a breath of fresh air. A very welcome influx of youth and culture after leaving the stuffy old conservative views of Napier. It is very nice to be back in a city. A place that is vibrant, busy and whole world different to what we have become accustom too. Today was spent doing pretty much what we do upon arrival in any world city, we walked around, cruised the shops and people watched. I can assure you that the hopeless kids of today are wrapped up in the “latest” fashion trends of 1987, bad hair and skinny pants are everywhere.

Wellington also boasts the Beehive, which houses the NZ government:

The bucket fountain on Cuba St. Both loathed and loved by the locals due to its abundance of splashing water making everything within 20 feet of it soaked on a windy day, which is pretty much everyday.

And Te Papa museum.

This is the national museum of NZ. Housing the richest collection of art, artifacts, and interactive exhibits in the country this museum is a great place to kill an afternoon and it is completely free (New York City museums should take note). Heaps of information on Maori Culture and the odd roving exhibit, like the Monet collection that was passing through. We did not get many photos as it was frowned upon, but we did manage to sneak these ones in.
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On a side note, we had a slight panic when I lost our bag check ticket half way through the museum. Good thing nobody got our bag before we did, it only had our wallets, passports and our laptop!!! Whoops!

Tomorrow we plan on checking out the cable car, botanical gardens and maybe even take in a little theater but we'll decide that in the morning because we are going out drinking tonight.