My usual first stop of the morning-and they're installing a fell beast!

My favorite little stationer and NZ Post outlet

The Green Parrot by daylight

It's the first really gorgeous day since I've been in NZ

The huge Gandalf banner on the NZ Post building overlooking the harbour

Little Frodo gets a little sun near the harbour

I'm looking for the gondola to the botanic gardens, take a wrong turn, and find parliament

The Beehive

Frodo quite liked the wall along this walkway

The display in the window of Karl Urban's father's leather goods shop

We can't find the Eastbourne Ferry, so Frodo and I take a harbour cruise instead

It's not only in Queenstown that Kiwis take to sports

On a gorgeous weekend day like this, all of Wellington seemed to be on or near the water.

Te Papa, where I stop to pick up my elven fabric wrap after the cruise

By the time I get back that night, he's pretty well installed

Swag from day 2

The blouse I bought for Viggo's poetry reading, and my elven wrap

The signs are beginning to appear for the parade the following week

I decide to walk to the end of Majoribanks (thanks, Lora), but instead, keep going up the hill

Between being on the outskirts of Victoria and the Fell Beast down the way and sunset, Frodo's a bit apprehensive

Sunset over Wellington