WELLINGTON

its ours 2nd day here now, its a very pretty city with four seasons in one day! We landed in a very turbulent way due to the gusty wind! Our plane was basically lobsided and it looked like one of the wings were going to scrape on the ground while the other one was still in the air just before we landed. My stomach was doing flips as I've and it was all quite exciting. But after this experience ill know what to expect if I landed in Wellington again. It is VERY windy here!! And seeing so much rain on the first day we arrived was a welcome sight after the very dry environment of Adelaide. Yesterday we got up real early to go to phils aunty and uncle's house to watch a 9am game of rugby NZ vs France. NZ beat them by heaps and his aunty and uncle cooked a big buffet breakfast for all of us. There was other ppl there as well and the only one french guy so maybe he was feeling a bit strange? As, of course everyone was going for NZ. I really had no idea what was going on so I just enjoyed the brekky :)

Got to see an christmas parade in the city and phil got really sunburnt on his face. I had a little bit too. The sun is a bit different here, apparently they have little or no ozone layer above nz (its where the hole is?) and the sun penetrates in a burning way. Its still kinda cool and breezy so that fools you into thinking its not going to do anything, but looking a phils face now i can say its pretty full on. I think in oz its so hot everywhere that youre really aware of the getting burnt so you are conciously avoiding it..

I will continue later, were being picked up.