Fly away…

We were blessed with beautiful sunny but cool weather throughout the duration of our one-week stay in Wellington, praise the Lord but as we were leaving on the 14th of December, I could see the dark clouds gathering…

…over Wellington airport…

The airport is rather small especially considering that this is the capital city of the country but it is very nice inside…

…and like everything and everywhere else around here , there is always something there to remind you that you are in Middle Earth…

I like this one – it looked like that mean-looking Gollum, originally known as Sméagol (or Trahald), was stretching out to grab hold of Melissa…

They seemed to be promoting their sunny summer Christmas here in New Zealand…

…so they had these bean bags all over for people to sit while waiting for their flights…

There are seats all over, of course and some saw it fitting to occupy more than one, it seemed…

We flew via their national airline to Auckland…

…where we spent the next 6 or 7 days in the country. I texted my friend to ask her if we should have lunch at the airport before take off but she replied, “Don’t you dare put anything in your mouth before you get here!” so we did not get to try any of the stuff that they had at the many food outlets at the airport.

Initially, I had wanted to include the welcoming lunch we had upon arrival there in this post but there was so much to eat and so many photos that I reckoned it would be better to have all that in a separate post. Do come back tomorrow to see what we had in store…waiting for us in Auckland, the City of Sails.