Christchurch day 2

Today we got up and headed straight to the free art centre. It is a collaboration of historical buildings that are now set up to house independent galleries, theatre groups, venues and so on. Here is picture of some of the architecture.



Then we crossed the street to the free art museum. We tried not to look like perverts walking through the exhibit on nudity, then dove into a modern artists’ works that resemble a little bit of what John’s friend James used to draw in school, then off to “Blue Planet” which was supposed to be for a younger crowd, but there were only adults in there and they all seemed to find it very interesting! After this we snake our way back towards our car, but stopped off for a pie. “Pies” are very kiwi and basically are like chicken pot pies, but with whatever you want in them. I had a bacon and egg pie – John had chicken. They were pretty good, but made us feel fat. Which was not good.

Then we took advantage of the library’s free internet in town – a valuable resource! We both did preliminary job searching stuff and in general wasted a few hours there.

We needed to get out to Akorao…a small town on the coast where we had an appointment to swim with Dolphins! But first, John is proud that he was able to find and take pics of three of the four Starbucks in Christchurch…here they are:







We got into Akoroa around 8:30 just in time before this strict Holiday Park closed its gates. By the way, we have been staying at a lot of Holiday Parks. They are very nice places that have cabins, kitchen facilities, bathrooms, sometimes extras like spas and pools and jumping pillows! Actually here are a couple of pics of John on the jumping pillow in Timaru – it was way fun!



Before we went to bed that night I was thrilled to run into a hedgehog that was adorable, and also the night was clear and I saw a shooting star!


Oh....and guess who got their hair cut...