Te Papa is excellent. For starters it's mainly free, I say mainly as you have to pay for the interactive exhibits which were (computerised sheep shearing aside which was fantastic) all pretty awful anyway. The Timewarp that took you forward in time to 2055 felt like it was made in the early nineties. Needs upgrading a little methinks. Among the galleries, and exhibits was a fascinating section on the geography of the local area, and the tectonic plates throughout the world. One plate goes straight through NZ and you can see why there is so much vocanic activity. Also a bit worrying as we're heading to the South Island where they had a 7.1 Richter scale earthquake just last month and they are still having aftershocks.

Nando's appears to be in NZ which is great news although they were out of spicy rice so that particular cultural highlight will have to wait til lunch today. We've popped round Richard and Sally's and dumped our stuff there. We're meeting up with tthem again tonight (I should hope so we're staying at their house!!!) and I'm off to the rugby with Richard and a mate whilst Jen is staying in to watch bad TV and drink wine no doubt. The rest of today is going to be taken up with the bits we didn't get to yesterday thanks to the inclement weather - namely the cable car (if it's not too windy), houses of parliament, and markets which were closed yesterday but oh so luckily (honest) open on a Friday.

We're on the Picton ferry first thing Sunday morning and then we're dashing down to Christchurch to meet up with Jen's parents who should arrive around 8am on Monday morning.