{"id":12080,"date":"2015-03-20T08:28:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T12:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=12080"},"modified":"2015-03-20T08:28:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T12:28:54","slug":"friday-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=12080","title":{"rendered":"Friday in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were up and out pretty early for us &#8211; had a couple errands to do, a scenic overlook to view, <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P1010407.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P1010407-1024x683.jpg\" title=\"view from Wainuiomata Hill Lookout\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>a friend to meet at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcl.govt.nz\/about\/branches\/central\/architecture.html\" title=\"Wellington Library\" target=\"_blank\">Wellington Library<\/a> for lunch and chat and then some Wellington sightseeing to do (hello <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellingtoncablecar.co.nz\/\" title=\"Cable Car\" target=\"_blank\">cable car<\/a>!) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P1010425.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P1010425-1024x683.jpg\" title=\"Wellington Cable Car\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tepapa.govt.nz\/pages\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Wellington Museum<\/a>. The museum was super &#8211; very interactive and informational and well, this guy was near where we came in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P1010429.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P1010429-683x1024.jpg\" title=\"azog the defiler\" width=\"342\" height=\"512\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P1010432_2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P1010432_2-683x1024.jpg\" title=\"Afternoon tea break at museum\" width=\"342\" height=\"512\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P1010439.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P1010439-1024x683.jpg\" title=\"Exterior of Wellington Museum\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We walked around outside the museum, enjoying the harbor and the people and the exterior of the museum &#8211; very boat-like I thought, with some waves thrown in. Then it was off to the Wellington Airport because, well because:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P1010442.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P1010442-1024x683.jpg\" title=\"Gollum - Wellington Airport\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P1010445_2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P1010445_2-683x1024.jpg\" title=\"Gandalf and Eagle\" width=\"342\" height=\"512\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P1010447.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/P1010447-1024x683.jpg\" title=\"Eagle\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then we had a lovely dinner at a Mexican restaurant with two of Marge&#8217;s sons and their wives and grandson. Good time had by all! Much good food and conversation. We came home and had some more chat about our travels and traveling and now it is time for some sleep. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were up and out pretty early for us &#8211; had a couple errands to do, a scenic overlook to view, a friend to meet at the Wellington Library for lunch and chat and then some Wellington sightseeing to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=12080\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[169,143,327,550],"tags":[328,205,358],"class_list":["post-12080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coffee-and-tea","category-geeky-stuff","category-journey-to-nz","category-lotr","tag-journeytonz","tag-lotr-2","tag-wellington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-38Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12090,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12080\/revisions\/12090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}