Last day > Trip home

Girls helping pack for the last time.  It was a lot of work to stay in so many different places!

For our last morning, we decided to explore the Quake City museum that documented the impact of the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes on Christchurch.  The city gets many earth tremors each year, but these two had epicenters very close to the city and were quite large on the richter scale. You can see what they did to one of the railway lines...

This is kind of random, but there were a lot of different artifacts with stories behind them.  These were discovered inside one of the walls of the cathedral when it was so heavily damaged.  At first they thought they were workmen's knee pads, but they were all different sizes.  Eventually they determined they were clapper covers for the tower bells so they would be muted.

This was part of the leaded stain glass windows that didn't survive at the cathedral.

Last view of Auckland from the airport.  We got to fly Air New Zealand and boy did we have more leg room than any American carrier I've been on!  Great service.