Wellington, Thursday, 12 November, 2009. Alhamdulillah, praise be to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala for all His ni'mah that He has bestowed upon us. We are sorry that we have not been updating our blog after the Day 1 (3rd of November). It has been very busy and we had not enough time for Internet & sleep. Internet here is expensive. In Whitianga we have to pay NZD10 for an hour for the Wifi. At Taupo, NZD10 a day (or night actually). But we spent most of the time skyping with the children at home.
We are now in Wellington. We arrived here as planned on the Friday, 6th of November, but quite late in the afternoon. We are staying at the
Capital View Motor Inn, in a double bed studio with kitchen. We don't have the harbor view, but the hill view. It a pleasant place and we are very happy with it. It is close to the bus stop, to major Wellington streets where the buses stop, but not too buzy into the city. An oriental shop where you can find durian (frozen) and lemon grass (also frozen) just two blocks away, on Hoppers St. So, by today, it is the sixth day in Wellington (counting Friday the 6th).
I'll write our experiences as we traveled from Auckland to Wellington in the following blogs. Today, I went to the Wellington
Islamic Centre at Kilbirnie by bus. I met Br Sultan Yusuff, and Br Hanafi. Br Sultan is the current CEO of
FIANZ and Br Hanafi is a Kiwi veteran, retired Fijian descent. Very happy to meet them. I'll get their pictures.
