{"id":918,"date":"2013-12-09T20:50:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T07:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/blog\/?p=918"},"modified":"2013-12-09T20:50:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T07:50:56","slug":"already-half-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/09\/already-half-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Already half-way&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Half-way through my trip as well as half-way through my two weeks in Wellington. Although I&#8217;m taking things easy, time just seems to fly by. As you can see from my tweets, I&#8217;m feeling very happy here and having a marvelous time. I guess a part of me will always consider Wellington my second home&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evamaria_n\/11183078795\/\" title=\"Wellington by Evamaria N, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3671\/11183078795_32bc8eb417_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"193\" alt=\"Me at the top of the cable car\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evamaria_n\/11183137024\/\" title=\"Wellington by Evamaria N, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5518\/11183137024_5973d6dab9_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"191\" alt=\"a bird's eye view over Wellington\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also managed to meet up with several of my friends and will see more of them this week as well as catch up with some I haven&#8217;t yet gotten to see. It&#8217;s so great &#8211; they&#8217;re such lovely people, it feels so easy and natural to hang out with them. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evamaria_n\/11202736636\/\" title=\"Wellington by Evamaria N, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7433\/11202736636_0966c9d83b_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"193\" alt=\"Jisook\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evamaria_n\/11256574705\/\" title=\"Wellington by Evamaria N, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7290\/11256574705_7806cc124f_n.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"193\" alt=\"Celia\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Going back to CRC, the church I went to in 2008, was also great &#8211; definitely planning on going back next Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Talking plans, next Monday I&#8217;m planning on leaving Wellington and going up to National Park to do the Tongariro Crossing. The only fly in my soup is that my toe is still aching &#8211; had it checked out by a doctor today, and he said it should be okay (it&#8217;s sprained, not broken), although he also talked about expecting quite a bit of swelling and pain. I really want to go &#8211; this morning after the appointment I was determined, but I&#8217;ve been doing a LOT of walking here (haven&#8217;t taken any public transport except the cable car) and unsurprisingly it&#8217;s getting worse and not better and I&#8217;m usually in quite a bit of discomfort at the end of a normal day here, so right now I&#8217;m back to not knowing. Eight hours is just a LONG time hiking, especially since there&#8217;s steep climbing, both up- and downhill involved. Ugh, decisions, decisions&#8230; And until I decide I can&#8217;t really book anything for next week &#8211; <em>if<\/em> I don&#8217;t do Tongariro, I&#8217;d probably go to Rotorua, enjoy the hot springs there, before heading to Hobbiton. <\/p>\n<p>Anyways, to wrap up on a more cheerful note (btw, I am completely aware that I&#8217;m totally talking first world problems here &#8211; I&#8217;m so bloody lucky to be here at all!): I managed to get all my Christmas shopping done and wrote a whole bunch of postcards! We&#8217;re not mentioning all the stuff I bought for myself &#8211; there are sales everywhere, it&#8217;s dangerous to go downtown (which I do every day)&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><small>Note: All photos can be found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evamaria_n\/sets\/72157637916084186\/with\/11169362413\/\" target=\"new\">this set<\/a> on Flickr.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half-way through my trip as well as half-way through my two weeks in Wellington. Although I&#8217;m taking things easy, time just seems to fly by. As you can see from my tweets, I&#8217;m feeling very happy here and having a marvelous time. I guess a part of me will always consider Wellington my second home&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-nz","category-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}