Wellington is the country's capital, and a nice city. They have good coffee, but no Tim Hortons.
Wellington's museum Te Papa was highly recommended, so we spent some time there- they have a giant squid on display, the only one in any museum in the world.
The new Hobbit movie just came out so we went to see it, they played a "thank you New Zealand" clip before the movie started.
Wellington was a good place to get our LOTR fix, the next day we went to the Weta workshop and did their shop tour, we got to see and handle some cool props from Lord of the Rings, District 9, and I spotted Hellboy's revolver on the wall. Of course they don't let you take pictures in the actual workshop because they are working on upcoming movie projects. So the only pictures we got are from the gift-shop part.
We felt like nerds, but felt a little more normal after seeing a tour bus of people dressed as hobbits and elves on the ferry.
In the evening we went to a mini-golf place I heard of called Carlucci-land. It was the best mini golf course ever, the place is full of junk-art and all kinds of traps and tubes the ball goes down, we had a blast there. There's no place like it.
This ends our tour of the north island, on the Saturday morning we caught the ferry to the south island.
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