Wellingtonpost aka houghingtonpost aka idk what houghingtonpost is but im combining it with wellington.

Roadtrips

I HATE road trips. A bit dire considering some in the group want to do a road trip. I guess I can put up with it for like two hours but anything past that and I will become miserable. Going from Hamilton to Gisborne, and Gisborne to Wellington are both six or seven hour trips. Even mentioning the thought of a seven hour road trip makes me shudder, tear up and let out a shaky breath of fear and misery. So it is safe to say I did not enjoy the trip there and back from Wellington. And the gorges... HELP MEEEEE. The WORST part of driving anywhere. Long straight roads I can tolerate but gorges. As a kid whenever I would go to prison I would always get motion sick especially in the gorges. And even now I can get motion sick if I haven't eaten. Unfortunately though I think I am in for a lifetime of gorge drives unless I become really rich and just get plane tickets. It was nice though to see somewhat familiar sights like the Napier McDonalds and my father's prison.

Motel

The motel was paid for not by my family but by whatever my mother has going on. Salvation army or some rehab thing? Idek. It looked very nice on the outside and I got the biggest bed. The sponge was apparently really dirty though, and there was no oven but that didn't bother me as I wanted to eat out in wellington, not that we really got to though.

Day One

Day One was shopping day, it is an awful experience standing around following your family into shops you do not want to go in. We went to like Chemist Warehouse where my mum gave me and two of my sisters a budget of 125 for perfumes and we all got the cheap shit. I think mine was 50 and that was the most expensive one. She also got me curly hair routine stuff so idk I guess imma be gorg when I return to Hamilton. Comic book store... HEAVEN. My eyes lit up walking into that sacred temple of geek material. Wish they had toys cause I wanted Spider-Man Toys but we soldier onwards. Got a bunch of Absolute Flash and some Spider-Man stuff. I had Sal's pizza for dinner even though we have that in Hamilton and I would have much preferred to try places only in Wellington, but we stayed a bit away from the heart of town so I had to stick to places nearby. It was really good though I loved how creamy the cheese tasted and like I haven't had fresh Sal's pizza before even though I've tried it in Hamilton. It's always cold by the time it's delivered.

Day Two

The second day I woke up at like 11 and showered so we could go to the arcade!!!. We were supposed to do bowling but didn't get to, was a bit bitter about the change of plans because what's the point of making plans if they are not stuck to??? But I did happen to win a Spider-Man Plushie in only three tries (smirking emoji). They also had a supa cool Venom pinball machine (pinball wizard from Glee sung by the splendiferous Unique) and y'know I had to play as ma boy Peter Parker. We also did Laser Tag which was more fun than I expected, hardly felt the seven minutes go by. They also had the MOST AMAZING seasoned wedges. They were truly amazing, soooooooooo crunchy and flavourful, and fluffy on the inside. Jalapeno bites bomb too. I don't remember the day but I'm putting my grievance here: my aunty made like a negative comment about how the restaurant we go to having to have food I like and... yes??? Duh??? The restaurant has to have food that everyone likes because that's the point?

Day Three

Day three was museum day! It had to be the most depressing museum trip of my life. The Moa is such a beautiful bird, like it's like, add it to the list of my spirit animals she is just so gorgeous, she serves so hard, she is prehistoric CUNT.

It had lots of native animal stuff which is to be expected, but what I did not expect is to start tearing up in the native bird room. And that is because each little portrait of a bird had it's egg on it which you press to hear it's bird noises, and then see if it is doing good, doing okay, or EXTINCT. Not only that, they give you little blurbs, how fun! Such as "I'm not faring well, even though I've been reintroduced to several sites" and "Rats caused my downfall. People too. A hunter once reported shooting 120 of us before breakfast" like... THEY PHRASED IT SO MISERABLY IN THE 1ST PERSON JUST SAYING STUFF LIKE "I was unfortunately massacred a hundred years ago, the last of us was spotted in 1920 as roadkill" like that roadkill bit was literally in there like I WANTED TO CRY.

If you thought it would get better? Of course not! Because next was the Gallipoli section. It's lowkey a blur because we didn't have much time but whereas all the men were depicted in the midst of battle, the one statue of a woman has her sobbing over the death of her brother. Like wow really went for the heart with that one.

My family lowkey irritated me cause they were being all like "ewww" and dismissive to some parts of it and like it's literally war yeah its gross and depressing. There was an unexpected amount of man butt. Something you can never really be prepared for. I did really enjoy the art level though with the flower paintings. 

We then got yummy pizza and went cable cars which was nice. I wanted to go out for dinner but of course nope. #lame. My mother's girlfriend was also there this day, so that was cool.