Rugby!

We booked a ferry in the middle of the day to cross cook straight so that we could take in the views. Lucky for us its been covered in a rain storm for the past few days and our afternoon on the ferry was no exception. The good news was that the bar was open and the New Zealand International 7s tournament was on TV.

We got in late evening- well after 5pm everything is closed in NZ so it felt late- and decided to stay at a DOC camp site just outside of wellington. The rain didn't stop until morning and the notorious Wellington wind persisted all night and in to the next day so we decided to get a hostel for the weekend instead. It was a good idea too because the first three games of the super 14 were on back to back all day in the bar. Not the most productive day for us but quite fun to sit around and watch good rugby.

Molly got in on Saturday and we spent the day wondering around trying to find tickets to the Wellington Hurricanes game on that evening before showing Molly around what little we know of the city and basking in the glory of their horrendous capital for a few hours. The game that night was awesome! After years of playing rugby it was the first time both Molly and I got to see a professional team in a stadium setting and it was glorious! Their stadium is called the cake tin because it looks exactly like one and they only served Tui beer – a ridiculously light and sweet thing that comes in a plastic soda bottle style packaging- but the crowd was drunk and screaming at the ref the whole time and our seventh row center field seats were only $40 and it was one of my happiest moments. The Hurricanes played an ok game- obviously a season opener for them- and even though they managed to come back strong towards the end of the second half, the Australian Warritahs were just much better.

Late Sunday morning we left Wellington for Wanganui to stay with Bob and Jenny once more before finishing our last few weeks in NZ.