A rather unhealthy day

So we woke up this morning and after having showers and getting ready for the day Nick rung the campervan hire company to let them know about the battery not charging. Unfortunately this weekend is a bank holiday weekend so we won't be able to get anything done until Tuesday. Why New Zealand have a bank holiday for the Queen's birthday when we don't is a mystery. We've been asked to stay in a powered site for this time and the company will reimburse us for one of the nights of this stay. We've just decided to stay at the same campsite because it was the best around and it saves us moving too far away when their seems to be quite a few repair places in Lower Hutt. It's a little annoying that it had to happened now but at least we are near the capital of the country so there's lots around for us to do. Nick's been longing to see the new Advengers film so we thought we'd have a bit of a chilled out non touristy day today and watch it. We headed to a town 30 minutes away so that we didn't have to pay for parking like we would of had to for the cinemas in Wellington itself. We struggled for a while to actually find the carpark for the cinema and after driving around the whole block we eventually found a ramp that lead up to the best place to park. We then faced the issue of it having a 2 hour parking limit so Nick went in a found the information desk and she took our registration and reassured us it would be fine if we were using the cinema. After buying our tickets we had some time to kill so we went to Kmart to exchange a jumper I bought and to New World to get some cinema worthy snacks. It wasn't long before we were making our way back to the cinema and it had got rather busy for the showing which was surprising seeing as the film has been out for quite a while. I passed a boy aged about 6 dressed as the hulk in the toilets and he did a rather impressive arm muscle tense complete with a growl when he saw me. The film was really good although I haven't watched all the Marvel films so I didn't get all the jokes or know who some people actually were to start with. Luckily it felt rather independent as a film so it didn't matter too much. After the film we went to deal with the fact that one of our headlight and break light bulbs had blown and needed replacing. We went to a Supercheap Auto near by and after almost an hour in the carpark it was determined that our headlight isn't wired correctly and needed an auto electrician to look at it. This felt like a huge blow and just another thing to add to the list of things that needed sorted. We both felt a bit disheartened so we decided that we needed some treat food in our lives to cheer us up. When we found out the local Pak'n'save didn't do the nice homemade pizzas other branches do it was yet another disappointment. We were determined to have pizza though and instead went and got a takeaway from a place in Lower Hutt. Two huge pizzas with free garlic bread and chicken strips. So much food! We've got quite a lot left over to have for breakfast and we spent the rest of the evening watching TV in the TV room until we got interrupted by a family with 3 children under 8 coming in, all of which were drinking full fat coke and eating sweets at 9:30pm! They moaned so much to their parents that it wasn't cartoons on the TV that in the end we left once our programme had almost finished anyway. As nice as it was to do something non touristy it did end up making us wonder why we're here doing this so I'm looking forward to getting back into tourist mode tomorrow and seeing more of this country.Read more