Yes, we are a day ahead of you, so the Super Bowl was played today, Monday, Feb. 5. Weird!
After a busy day in Tauranga visiting Hobbiton, seeing Kiwi fruit, eating special ice cream (Hokey Pokey), I was due for a rest day, so even though it was a gorgeous summer day in Napier (high 60's), I took it easy. We took the shuttle bus into the center of Napier and while Chris walked around the town, I sat in their beautiful park trying to use their free wifi (not great...downloaded 3 Kindle books in about an hour!). The town was virtually destroyed by an earthquake in the '30's, so was built back in the Art Deco style of the age. Very nice but I never cared for that architectural style. I watched folks on the beach (very stoney, but clear water) and the surf was great in areas...probably 20'! Movie night on board..."3 Billboards..." which was great acting, but didn't care for the story...too dark...and too much foul language.
Today we've been sailing along the eastern edges of the North and South NZ islands. Where the two are split is the Cook Straits...famous for wind and high seas. It didn't surprise us then to find 50+ knot winds with high seas as we passed by that area...too rocky for me, so I succumbed to sea sickness for a few hours...not bad, and probably would have been fine if I hadn't been spending all morning working on my computer processing my Hobbiton photos. By mid-afternoon we were back to our normal seas and winds. Tomorrow will be busy with a tour from our port of Port Chalmers (Dunedin) to a penguin nesting habitat...HOPING I can get there...90 steps down and back up. Cabin stewards know to bring me my ice tomorrow when I return!
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