Day 1: Can someone tell me the time?

Updated with Photos

Got the ferry to Picton early tomorrow, so gotta get an early night.

By early tomorrow I mean my body-clock's 2:00am. By early night, I mean my body-clock's 6:00pm. URGH.

Spent the day with Nikki though, that was really awesome! She took us for a tour of Wellington, around the peninsulas and to the lookouts. So crazy pretty. We went for lunch at this awesome little cafe overlooking the bay, and had the best (and most expensive) milkshakes I've ever had. They had chocolate bars blended up in them and everything! I could feel my arteries clogging as I drank it.

At the cafe looking over the bay.

Enjoying some sun.

Then we went up to *mumblemumblecan'trememberthename* on the top of a hill overlooking the whole bay, three hundred and sixty degrees of awesome. Well, 300 degrees of awesome and 60 degrees of non-english-speaking couples making out. Which I guess still equates to awesome.

I took about 200 photos from the lookout, but I still can't get my laptop online so there's gonna be a huge backlog of snapshots to post as soon as I find a wireless access point.

Looking out over the eastern end

of Wellington.

It's a Wellington tradition to honk

your horn when driving through this tunnel

(it's very noisy).

From there we went to a chocolate shop that sells chocolates with names like "MegaLime UltraChilli HyperPrime Dark", which allows them to charge a billion dollars a kilogram for what is essentially a seizure of the tongue. I bought 5 small chocolates with some very fake looking plastic money (I think the ATM's are having me on) and ate one before deciding the remainder would be great souvenirs to bring home and inflict upon - I mean gift unto - friends.

And finally we drove up to the cable-car lookout, which offered equally stunning views but without the non-english-speaking-tourists-making-out, so wasn't quite as good.

Cable-car Lookout.

The cable-car travels from the city center to the lookout.

We didn't ride it this time, but we will on the way back.

I should mention that Nikki made the day awesome, despite the harrowing experience of driving around Wellington. A good analogy might be running, blindfolded, on stilts, across a one inch cable upon which 3 other people are simultaneously running in the opposite direction swinging baseball bats. Actually, that was a dumb analogy, as you'd have a higher chance of survival on the cable.

From there I got a bit jetlaggy and went back to the hotel to lie down for a while, but then Heath and I decided we needed to go grab dinner so we could get an early night, and ended up back at the internet cafe, partially because I wanted to sit down for 5 minutes, but mostly because his artichokes are ready to farm and that is significantly more important that an international vacation.

*Glares*