There are a few things we wanted to see in Wellington, and Te Papa, the city's giant natural history museum, was one of them. Because it was raining we thought we'd take the opportunity to do an indoors activity. The museum is fantastic, huge and well laid out. We spent almost all day looking at planets and skeletons and maori exhibitions, and even went on a couple of mini rides. We had lunch and carried on, but the place was so big we didn't get a chance to see it all. We did manage to get a look at the museum's earthquake protection - a Kiwi invention called base isolators which sit under a building and absorb shockwaves. There were windown under the foundations of the museum that looked onto them. They reckon an earthquake happens every week in Wellington, and they're preparing themselves for a huge one at any time.

It was getting dark again, and a film we'd never heard of but saw the trailer for last night would be starting in just a little longer than it would take to walk to the cinema, so we headed that way, stopping in a shopping mall for some drinks and sweets. The shopping mall had a huge television screen in the middle of it showing pictures of a shopping mall in Christchurch. As I watched, two girls walked into view and stood facing the camera. I jumped in front of the camera on this side, and waved, and the girls looked all surprised and waved back. It was very cool! Or sad, but fun.

The film,'Monsieur Ibrahim', was a really nice film, easily making up for yesterday's depressing fare. And I even forgot it was French after while. It had a lovely guy in it, called something like Omar Sharif that Mikey reckons my parents will have heard of, so if you have, let me know, cos I hadn't!

Oh, and I managed to sew my new trousers to make them a bit shorter. My mum would be so proud!