Fulfilling yesterday's plans

The weather was not looking fab when we woke up today so we weren't optimistic about how the day would pan out. We found out that the cinema near us sells tickets for only £5 so we decided to have a morning treat and went to watch Player Number One. It's a film about a virtual reality universe "game" created in 2027 where most of the future world spend their time because it's much better than the actual lives they live. It was a brilliant film, one of the better ones we've watched and I highly recommend it to anyone. Unfortunately I was sat behind a boy who looked about 6, far to young for the level of violence I felt. Anyway he kept jumping up and down in his seat and even standing up to jump at any part where it got a bit upbeat and interesting. At least it started that way but by the end it was just at such random points. I understand he was excited but to get that excited by someone being killed, at 6, is a little concerning in my opinion. In the end I couldn't actually focus on the film and with his mum doing nothing I moved to the row in front of them. It's then when in front of him you realise how much he is talking about every single thing that is happening and constantly saying "did you see that?!" to his mum. I then felt sorry to everyone sat in front of them and to the side. Not once did his mum try and ask him to keep it down a bit and you'd think if she knew he would be like that it would of been nice if they sat nearer the front or at the back where less people would be effected. Anyway despite that it was a great film. Afterwards when we came out of the cinema the sun was shining so we rung the gondola company to see if they were running which luckily they were. We took the gondola ride up and spent time exploring the area at the top as well as spending our money in the gift shop and cafe. There's so many awesome NZ themed things I want that I have to try my hardest to rein in the spending. We decided to do a single way journey and walk down to the carpark instead which took about 2 hours. It mainly took that long because I stop every two minutes to take photos, something Nick is very use to by now. Also, neither of us wore walking shoes so we had to be careful with our footing as we descended. It's quite awesome that Christchurch have this whole peninsula of beauty and hills on their doorstep. It definitely makes it a desirable place to live. Tomorrow we head off to explore this area more and are staying in our final Airbnb before we get our campervan!Read more