Wellington plans ...

We head out early tomorrow morning at 5:30 am or so to catch the 8:00 am Bluebridge ferry from Picton to Wellington. Its amazing the things you need to pack with kids :) We are taking their bike/tryke, books, helmets, swimming gear etc. Mari has come up with the Pillow Case (tm) packing scheme. Each of us gets a pillow cover and we stuff our clothes in it. The same for books and other items.

We spend a lot of time figuring out the place we'll eat and have coffee etc. All of us are quite excited to be going to the big city. So here' s a list of things we plan to do in Wellingon. If you are local to Wellington, feedback is appreciated.

• Malaysian / South Indian food at Roti
• Chinese dim-sum or yum-cha at Regal
• Coffee at Mojo
  
• Seafood at Shed5
• Chocolate at Schoc. This will involve a roadtrip to goto the original store in Greytown
• French at Bistro Breton
• Maori food at Kai in the City
• More coffee at Cafe L'affare
  

Most of the above places are within a 2km walk around our apartment hotel. I suspect we'll be walking a lot in Wellington. I suspect we'll entice the kids with fluffies and other yummy treats Thats just the eating part on my list. Mari is maintaining her own separate list. We'll definitely visit Te Papa, hang out along the waterfront, visit the Zoo and/or wildlife park, definitely check out the playgrounds. We'll also check out the local farmers market Seems like the next few days are gonna be packed with eating / playing and having a good time. The weather forecast looks good for now. Hopefully the wind factor does not kick in

We'll keep you updated. Feels so strange to be excited about going into the city. I'm so looking forward to eating some good chinese and malay food :)