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| World Peace Bell |
So here's a funny thing. After all of the planning around renting a car in Christchurch, returning it in Greymouth, and then taking the TransAlpine train across the country back to Greymouth (a 4 hour ride), I didn't take a single picture on the train. We were pretty in-the-moment, I guess. And honestly, the ride was such a relief. All responsibility absolved, and just let someone else do the driving. This is a funny for me to say, since John did most of the driving, but when one is a front seat passenger when driving on the left on these dangerous roads, one feels like one is "helping". . .paying more attention. No knitting, thank you very much. So I'll ask you to imagine the train ride, with all of that beautiful scenery in the New Zealand Alps that you've already seen, and I'll pick up the thread when we returned to Christchurch. We only had a day before S and A had to go to the airport and wing their way home, but we used it to return to Christchurch, and especially the Botanical Gardens. We saw the World Peace Bell, which is one of "less than 25" located around the world. To learn more about it, check out
https://www.ccc.govt.nz/parks-and-gardens/christchurch-botanic-gardens/attractions/world-peace-bell.
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| S shoots A |
Then, we just walked around, ate lunch, and had fun until we delivered our lovely visitors to the airport. John and I still had 6 days before we headed home to Boise Idaho (eventually), so we decided to take a short trip to a lake town outside of Christchurch.
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| Big Fun With a Tree |
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| Beautiful Fungi |
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| Gardens Glasshouse |
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| S at a the Numbers sculpture downtown |
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