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Day 7 Shire Reckoning: Sterday, Foreyule 11th - Christchurch
Today we left Wellington to fly out to Christchurch. Not looking forward to leaving Wellywood but the 'road goes ever on'. Penny and I are the two most popular people on the bus because of what happened yesterday. Everyone wants to know the gory details (of which I am all too willing to recount). One cool thing is that we were able to get this British girl named Fiona, Orlando's autograph and some flowers...so pretty cool good deed! Linda was able to deliver it to her since she was the one who got Orlando's autograph in the first place. Now Linda and Eron are leaving the tour as well and they are headed to go diving on the Great Barrier Reef. What super-cool folks, I hope they have a great time. Get to Wellington airport and in the main lobby before we get to the boarding area are a couple of costumes on display. A bunch of different Uruk Hai, an Easterling, a Haradrim, a Ranger, and some Mordor and Moria orcses. Pix galore. Also got pictures of the Gollum on Wellington airport that welcomes people in and also finally managed to get a good shot of the Arwen Aragorn Air New Zealand 747.
For costume pix at full resolution go here: COSTUMES (these pix are huge so be warned if you're not on broadband it might take a while). On the flight, sat with Debbie and had a long cool film talk about old movies...King Kong, the '63 released of "The Haunting", and I told her about Mel Gibson's "The Passion" which is the next big movie I am highly anticipating...well, after Kill Bill Vol.2. Got to Christchurch, which looks remarkably like England, and checked into the Camelot hotel opposite the Cathedral. Then Penny and I went shopping for some stuff and went to the Tap Room where they have some outstanding New Zealand beer (Monteith's) and fine Pizza! Now back to the room to work on journal entries and catch up on some much needed rest. Whew!
Tomorrow...Edoras...and the golden hall of Meduseld where once dwelt Theoden King, whose mind was overthrown. (Its gonna be cold and wet I suspect.) |
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