I arrived in Wellington

I didn't do much yesterday. We travelled from Taupo to River Valley and it rained a lot of the way so although we had an option to go and see a waterfall, only a few crazy guys and the driver decided to go and jump off it in the cold and wet. I was pretty knackered from the walk and staying out the night before.



When we got to River Valley, which is just a rafting lodge in the middle of no-where, we just chilled out. I fell asleep on the couch. After dinner, everything descended into drinking games. It was hilarious. We had everyone playing, about 30 of us, and some of the games included rules about not using names, swapping clothes and flicking the person next to you on the head if you wanted to have a drink. I didn't manage to stay up too late as I was so exhausted.



Our beds were massive dorms with giant bunk beds. Enough for 10 on the bottom 10 on the top I think. It was like a massive sleep over. It took quite a while to fall asleep with everyone all together but I slept fairly well once I'd actually faleen asleep.

Yesterday the river was too low for rafting so we left the lodge early for our long trip down to Wellington (New Zealand's capital city). It took 5 hours. We stopped for lunch is a rather bizarre place called Bulls.

I really like Wellington (well not so much not because it's raining) but when we arrived yesterday it was sunny and looked lovely. There are loads of bars and restaurants and cafes. There are also some amazing looking shops. It seems really quirky and there are buildings painted random colours.

Last night quite a few of us went out for a curry, there are several people leaving the bus today, either to get the next bus down to the south island or to go to other places. After dinner we went to the hostel bar and played Bingo, which was ace. We ended up in a kareoke bar for some reason, there was only our group, but as there was about 25 of us that wasn't too bad.

Today I am going to look round the National Museum and then go to look round the shops and for coffee (there are lots of speciality coffee shops here). If there weather gets better then I'll walk up this massive hill to look out over the city but at the moment it's throwing it down with rain and incredibly windy. Lovely.
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