Windy Wellington.

Guess what? Yep, that's right, we used our coupon for a free cheeseburger with any purchase from Burger King yesterday. The purchase was a large order of fries. This was the first, and hopefully last, time we will go to Burger King over here. We're in Wellington now, and replaced our front tire/tyre on the way from the farm to here. That's a whole long story really, that I'm not going to bore you with right now. Instead, I will make it exciting. We asked around for a tire/tyre in Paraparaumu and Waikanae, and got one in Waikanae. The next morning, we notice it's a directional one, which means it wouldn't pass the next Warrant of Fitness, so we take it back, and find an honest place that sells us a nice used tire/tyre, for a very fair price. Sounds like no big deal. However, "the next morning" we were already in the Hutt Valley, which is on the other side of the natural harbor of Wellington. Which means we had to backtrack quite a bit. If there's one thing we've learned so far, be very careful with car repair places when travelling in New Zealand.

Anyway, I realized that my knowledge of New Zealand's geography increases with every day we spend here, and that before we came, I was absolutely clueless. Now I'm not proposing that my sophisticated and knowledgable readers are as ignorant as me, but just for convenience's sake, here's a map of the North Island and the South Island. You're welcome. I'd love to write some more, but I have to help Christina pick the pictures we are going to upload here in a minute, so look forward to that. Oh, and thanks to everybody that's sending us letters and cards. We really appreciate it. Oh, by the way, it seems that using that box number with our address causes more problems than it makes it easier, so just leave that out from now on and use just this:

Christoph Schumacher / Christina Miller
c/o Fat Camel Travel Desk
38 Fort St.
Auckland 1010

New Zealand

Alright, and just in case we don't get on this here internets before then, Merry Christmas.