Lazy Weekend

Afternoon everyone. It's been a really lazy rest of the weekend. I have really done absolutely nothing. I am going to try and write my essay today that is due on Thursday, but I am really not sure what to write. It is basically a long book report, and I am not sure what kind of thesis statement I can have about a book report. Somehow, "It was an informative book" doesn't quite cut it. Let's hope I can figure something out.

All I have really done is be chill and not much else, so I don't have many pictures to show from my adventures. I did go up to the top of Mt. Victoria last night to see the city in all its nighttime splendor, but I didn't take my camera. I will remember to do that next time. Anyways, I have decided to post some older pictures that I hadn't gotten a chance to post yet because there was just not enough room in a post, or the internet would take too long. Enjoy.

Another view of the Wellington harbour from up on Kelburn. I really can't get over how amazing the clouds look. It is almost like they are the peak of the mountain, but really, they're not.

This is the cable car coming up the hill to Kelburn. Yes, there is only one track, you are seeing that correctly, even though two cars run on the line. In the second tunnel there is this switch thing were they can go around each other, but it really does seem as if you are about to crash.

This is a part of the "Peace Flame Garden." It is near the rose garden at the botanical gardens. It contains the preserved fires from the atomic holocaust at Hiroshima. (Yes, I have the guidebook right in front of me.)

More Wellington harbour-ness. Really, I can't get over how pretty it all is!

This is V being a human sun dial. She did it on our way into the gardens, and I did it on the way out, and we really were amazed to see the time change. You stand on the day's date, put your back to the sun, put your hands in the air, and check out the date. Very cool. It goes well with my current obsession with time and time zones.

Clare, me, and Pheobe at Primal last Thursday. I might go on a brief road trip with Clare later in the semester because she is getting her brother's car (he is going to Africa for three months to finish up his degree).

This is a small portion of what the farmer's market looks like on Sundays. Now, you see the two stands there. It goes all the way to the end of the block to the right and to the back. There are tons and tons and tons of people, and even more stands. I wish I could get a good picture of it from above, but the outsides of my windows are so dirty here that it is impossible. They don't even open enough so that I can clean them.

I want to point out two things before I go.

1) This post took me more than an hour to type, and the vast majority of that time was waiting for the pictures to load.

2) The high here is 59, but it is supposed to be raining, so it will feel colder than that. Winds at 20mph. It's 9:34 PM in Dalton, but it is still 75 and rainy. The overnight low is 68, and the Sunday high is supposed to be 85. It was even worse earlier when the heat index was more than double the temp in Wellington!