Day 42 Wellington, NZ

Okay I have been having trouble with the days but I looked it up and it should be Day 42 because of the Internationa Date line it is messed up.

Okay here goes  today we were in Wellington, NZ and we were here in 08 and did a tour so yesterday one of the guides told Bill about a huge car museum owned by one man just about an hour south of Wellington.  Well we came back on board and I had the concierge check it out and the train to get there.  Well they are doing service on the tracks so the train is not running they are using busses and they only run every hour to 1 ½ hrs.  We talked to someone this am and we were able to hire a car and driver to take us on a private tour.  It was a lovely trip along the waterfront all the way down to the Museum.  The museum was great.  What can I say Bill was in his glory there were even two Datsun’s  a 310 and a 180 and a Prince Skyline which was bought out by Nissan.

Some of the cars were just fabulous.  He even had a boat and a couple of planes.  3 floors. 1^st and basement floor were all cars top floor was all old motorcycles.  This man collected everything old, typewriters, sewing machines and salt and pepper shakers.  When we finished the tour our driver asked us if we would like to come home a different way.  We said yes.  Well since I had that episode waiting for the tender in Easter Island I can not take windy roads and we didn’t think to ask.  Instead of coming along the water we came through the forest.  Up we went on this road that looked like it was only one way and it was really windy and then someone came and of course we are driving on the wrong side of the road it was frightening to say the least.  After about 40 minutes of this I was starting to feel not too good and was just about to ask him when we would get off this mountain when we came out onto the road we took in the morning.  It was spectacular scenery just wish it didn’t have so many curves!!!!!  I guess he figured Billl was a car guy he liked driving on these roads. 

He dropped us at the ship and we headed for a late lunch.  Bill decided to take the shuttle into town and I hit the internet café on the pier to finally try to download a few apps and update.  I did get a few downloaded but apparently 4 books were trying to download at the same time as the apps so nothing else got updated.  Try again in another port.

As I was sitting in the port Janice came back from her Gourmet tour and she sat with me and we were chatting.  Bill returned from town and said I didn’t miss anything so I was glad I didn’t walk all around again as my heel is killing me.

Another great day in New Zealand! Another day to be thankful for all that we have.

I'll take this one please

Or this one

Logs as far as the eye could see waiting to be loaded onto ships!

Rugby and Cricket Stadium right next to dock

Some beautiful scenery from our balcony