Today is Christmas Day here in New Zealand, perhaps one of the slowest days in the country, nothing is opened today, and when I mean nothing, I really mean nothing. Sol made us a really nice dinner, we had a Honey Glazed Ham she did following this recipe. It tasted really nice. The girls played a little on the garden, and then we went to a playground we saw on the...

Our first day at Napier. Today we decided to visit the National Aquarium here in Napier. It’s somewhat small but really nice, it has a Oceanarium on which you get into a glass tunnel as if you were in the middle of the fish tank.   PS: Today we decided to surprise the girls with some toys we got them courtesy of their grandma Mary. So when they woke...

Time for our first road trip in New Zealand. We are travelling from Wellington to Napier, which is usually a 3 hour trip, but we got a big traffic jam up in Parauparaumu so the trip in the end took 4 and half hours. We hit the road after a noon lunch. It was a really nice trip full of sightings and the roads are very well maintained.   When we got near...

It’s still raining like crazy and today a disaster happened, when I woke up and decided to turn on my laptop the thing wouldn’t turn on. I spent the whole morning trying to figure out what might be wrong, I finally had to take it to a repair shop up in Porirua, and since tomorrow we are leaving to Napier I had to pay extra to have the revision in a hurry,...

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...

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...

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...

Today we decided to visit the Carter Observatory on the Botanic Garden. On the Linden Station while we were waiting Sarai decided to strike some poses while Sol took pictures of her, the result were about 30 pictures of different poses of Sarai, from which I will show you a few: Then on the CBD Sarai found a nice sculpture by which she wanted her photo...

Hello family, I know it’s been some days since our last update, but we’ll try to catch up. We visited the Museum of New Zealand, or in Maori: Te Papa Tongarewa. The Muses is amazing, it’s really big so we only got two visit two of the four sections of the museum. To get to the museum we took the usual train from Linden Station to Wellinton’s...

Today we did our first trip to the CBD (Central Business District) also refered as Wellington City. We decided that since we have a long time to really know the city, today we would focus on doing a overview of the city, that means doing a lot of walking to see the different areas. First thing we have to do is take the train from Linden Station to Wellington’s...