2/9/02 Christ Church, NZ to Melbourne, Australia
(Kelly)
This is officially our last day in New Zealand! I really feel in the short amount of time of 3 weeks we conquered the country. Of course, there will always be little things we missed but I think we did a pretty good job. I highly recommend New Zealand to anyone wanting to experience a country oversees. A plus to this is that in the drury and cold winters in The States, New Zealand is a prime spot to get away to because it's summer...and I might add an extremely cheap country as well.
Phillip and I fortunately were able to take our bags to the airport and drop them off about 4 hours before our flight so we decided to do this and then spend a few hours in the International Antarica Center (it is just across the street from the airport.) Christ Church is known as the gateway to Antartica mainly because it is the last "big city" before you reach the ice filled continent. Many research teams through out the world are based here. Because of this almost 50 nations have contributed vasts amount of funding to open the center. We spent about 2 hours there before we caught our 4:15 flight to Melbourne. Approximately 4 hours later we landed, took the sky bus into the center of town, ate some dinner at a pizza place, and then Jayne and Robert came to pick us up to take us to their flat, which they had just aquired about 24 hours earlier.
Posted by Admin at February 10, 2002 09:41 PM