Day 4: in Wellington and back to Sydney

I've just bought a book "Make the most of your time on Earth". It is full of exciting and adventurous things to do around the World. It dedicates an entire page to Wellington's Te Papa, the museum of New Zealand. Luckily Sha and I visited Te Papa on our final day and we're so glad that we did. It's an amazing museum. It even has a sheep simulator where you get to be a sheep for as long as you like. I ate some grass. The museum is wonderfully set out. You don't know what you'll find around the next corner. Maybe a life-size whale heart, maybe the only giant squid on display anywhere in the World, a huge canoe or maybe a building that shakes as if you're experiencing an Earthquake ... In fact they had a huge earthquake exhibition on and were handing out bags and checklists so that you'd know what to do in an Earthquake. Unfortunately a lot of the visitors seemed to be from Christchurch. I heard one complaining that he'd come all the way to Wellington to get away from Earthquakes and they put a "damn exhibition on".

After a Malaysian lunch we took a taxi back to the airport (which apart from the ridiculous $25 departure charge per person) was fine. Then we flew back to Sydney on Air New Zealand. What an airline!! Phenomenal food and service and the funniest safety video that I've ever seen. We didn't get the nude air hostess safety video, but instead got the All Blacks version (do watch this link)!

Finally we got home and recovered the guinea pigs. Sarah had given them a hair cut. We also discovered the huge mangoes that are now everywhere in Sydney!