Christchurch, New Zealand

Our flight from Hong Kong dropped us in Auckland and we then transferred to take a short flight to Christchurch.

On arrival, I felt like a million bucks having slept wonderfully and chowed down on steak in business class. Ella and Suds were a little less enthusiastic about their experience in Economy...

We had to walk to the domestic terminal and were pleasantly surprised by the sunny warm weather. After spending time in Hong Kong blue clear skies and clean crisp air really impress you. So far New Zealand wasn't disappointing us!


We arrived in Christchurch and book a room close to a large park. It was sensory overload with all the Spring flowers in bloom. It was a great park filled with massive trees that Suds could not stop taking pictures of :)





It was a holiday weekend and there was a huge free concert in the park. Over 100,000 people attended!





The Christ Church in town. We didn't have a lot of time, just the one afternoon and night. Plus Ella was cranky so we didn't do much sightseeing. There was no obvious earthquake damage to be seen. They had a large aftershock here just days before we arrived!

This started a trend of Ella wanting to go into every phone box she saw. This time she pretended to call Nana and Poppa but future calls were made to Lexi, Gamma Dudy, her Quincy doggy and the chickens.