June 27, 2017 - Christchurch
Sigh, today is our last day visiting the kiwis . Tomorrow morning we’ll be returning our much-used Tuscon and climbing about Air New Zealand’s flight from Christchurch to Auckland. But today we have one more chance to explore this glorious country. We’ve cleaned out the car, had a leisurely breakfast in our own kitchen, and watched the crazy morning news people. Milly is such a love! She isn't really this fat, though! Now we’re off to Sumner, the part of the city on the water, where the effects of the earthquake were very pronounced. There has been a great deal of restoration done already; but you can still see scaffolding and the effects of rock slides. We tried to drive downtown but the road and building construction makes navigating difficult and we decided we’d seen enough and headed to lunch. Later, we met Brad, our host, and he said the locals had trouble navigating, too, because so many of their landmarks were gone.