Wellington Cable Cars

We awoke this morning to an empty room, all of our room mates had left on the early bus. After a little bit of sleeping in we showered and got ready for the day. We started it out right with gelato! And pulled pork Po Boys from a corner funky restaurant.

Then we walked through the city to take a ride on the old school Cable Car that runs up the side of the mountain (what we Albertans would call a smallish hill). 

At the top we found the botanical gardens which turned out to be way bigger than expected, so we decided to take a walk and explore. We didn't realize that when you walk a significant distance downhill the only way to get back up is it to walk uphill. Not as fun as going down thats for sure! 

We spent the day exploring and found some old military equipment and climbed some amazing trees. It was just so sunny we had to try and spend the whole day outside! 

After a day of exploring in the sunlight we decided to take it easy in the evening, we attempted to go shopping but couldn't really buy anything because we have no room so we each got a pair of earrings. We met our new roommate Jenn, but she was only staying the night and catching a bus at 7am to head down south. She was from Oxford, England and was tons of fun. She joined us for dinner and we went to a bistro down the street from our hostel, Arden and I both got risotto and split a chocolate dessert to spilt between all of us! It was a lovely meal!