Our trip to Wellington

We traveled up to Blenheim and stayed overnight there to catch the early morning Ferry across the straight to Wellington,
The kids loved the Ferry, For them it was the first time on a vessel at sea, usually when they visit their Dad on his Ship it is tied up next to the wharf. Glad to say that we have bred Sea worthy children, no sea sickness at all, although Lydia has terrible "sealegs" and kept walking sideways with the rolling of the boat.

We went straight to the Wellington Zoo and checked out all the animals, They have a few different animals up there that we were looking forward to seeing, The "Sun Bear" was just beautiful, He was worth traveling to see, Plus they had the Servels out playing with them, Oh they are so cute! Just like an overgrown Cat. The Giraffes came up to the kids, Lydia was calling out to them "Puss, puss, puss" lol And the Baboons where just as Ugly as on TV, infact they were quite frightening!

We cruised out and stayed with Friends who have a wee girl the same age as Cooper, That was fun, We noticed how Cooper is SO MUCH BIGGER than petite Anika,

The next day we went and got out photos taken by Photography by Jane I can't wait to see our photos, Lydia was her usual self and was very difficult, so our group family photos went out the window, It will be interesting to see them as I know Jane got some really great shots in.

Then we zipped in to see the Te papa Museum, especially to check out the colossal squid that was caught on the boat my brother worked on down in the Ross sea Antarctica. Willow got a real buzz out of that, Both girls LOVED the discovery rooms where they were allowed to touch everything, lol

We ran out of time to do anything else as we had to get up early to catch the first ferry across back to Picton to travel back to Timaru. We arrived home just before 10pm (we had a few stops along the way) and got up early to drop Simon back at his Boat that came in this morning, :-( On a good note, he will be home for Xmas :-)