See those rays? It may not look like much, but I can’t remember a time when we’ve been as excited to see the sun. She finally came out from behind the clouds today, after four days of overcast and rainy conditions throughout our travels along the North Island. We’ve had a great time, but it’s been a lot of slogging around in the rain and telling ourselves that it could be worse.

We’ve really enjoyed Wellington, with its great restaurants, its cable cars, and its extremely compact and walkable downtown. We’re off to the South Island tomorrow; maybe when we see the inevitable snow, we’ll wish we had the rain back.