Wellington: Day 28

Dec 21

Wellington: Day 28

The last couple of days it has been pouring rain so we haven’t had a chance to do much. Yesterday we picked up our rental car, the first driving experience was a big adventure because here in New Zealand they drive on the other side of the road, so everything is inverted. We got a Nissan Sunny which is actually a nice car for us, plenty of space both in the...

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Wellington: Day 20 by Sol

Dec 17

Wellington: Day 20 by Sol

Yesterday we went to the Te papa Museum, they had an European Masters exhibition. We didn’t post anything because they don’t allow to take pictures. So today we went to Capital E (Capital E is the culture and arts building for the kids), they had a special exhibition called Woodland Christmas. We walked the ocean front and then crossed a bridge to...

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Wellington: Day 18 by Sol

Dec 17

Wellington: Day 18 by Sol

Today it was a slow day because it was raining and foggy. I decided to take a girls to the mall for a cake and some shopping. We walked all the mall (we are girls!), we saw everything and bought almost nothing. I bought the girls a reindeer nose and horns. The girls had a Mississippi mud cake and chocolate milkshake, and I had a Chocolate caramel. Of course...

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Wellington: Day 16 by Sol

Dec 17

Wellington: Day 16 by Sol

Hello everybody, today we went to the Weliington Zoo. Like almost every day we took the train, in the station Saraí was in the mood for another photoshoot, she began to pose and asked me to take pictures of her. It’s almost impossible to take picture of both of the girls together, Raquel always running around. In the station we took a bus to...

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Wellinton: Day 15 by Sol

Dec 11

Wellinton: Day 15 by Sol

Today we decided to stay home, but we made a gingerbread house and some cookies. They gilrs were excited, but they didn’t realize there’s a process to follow: Meassure everything in the recipe Make the dough Chill the dough Make the patterns Bake them Cool them Paste and glue them, then wait until they dry Then the fun part: decorate the house Saraí...

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Wellington: Day 14 by Sol

Dec 11

Wellington: Day 14 by Sol

Hello, everybody. We had a busy week since the weather forecast said that on the weekend it will be raining, so we had to go to the city all the weekdays. Today we went to Te Papa museum again. We finished what we couldn’t finishing yesterday and also we finished the 3rd floor. We were asked how the Christmas is celebrated here: it’s the same. Here is...

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Wellington: Day 13 by Sol

Dec 11

Wellington: Day 13 by Sol

Today we went to the Te Papa museum. As now you know, to get to the museum we took the train from Linden Station to Wellington’s Railway Station, then we walked on the ocean front. The museum is quite big, it’s 6 floors, so today we only got to see almost one. It’s divided by floors and sections, so each section has a children section, so the girls can...

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Wellington: Day 12 by Sol

Dec 11

Wellington: Day 12 by Sol

So today we went gorcery shooping. The supermarket is next to the mall, so we always walk it. Today we ate in a coffe shop a delicious dessert: chocolate. The gilrs had chocolate cookies with M&M’s and cholate milkshake. We had a tuxedo chocolate cake and a hot chocolate with marshmallows. When Saraí finished her cookie she told us: mom I want more!...

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Wellington: Day 11

Dec 05

Wellington: Day 11

Hello family, today is Sunday in Wellington and the weather is colder than previous days and really cloudy, good thing is that it didn’t rain so we were able to carry on with our plans. Today we decided to visit the Cable Car Museum and since is their 10th anniversary they had a couple of special events organized. The museum is really nice, it’s all...

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Wellington: Day 10

Dec 04

Wellington: Day 10

Today we took the girls to the movies to watch Megamind in 3D. We went to Reading Cinemas up in the North City Mall in Porirua. This was actually a big cinema and in the lounge it had some arcade games, one of them was a Japanese one in which you had to control a kind of an electrical hand that went up and down and had a small bar used to push the boxes. The idea is...

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