July 24th: Day 28

This morning when we woke up we really had no plan; we just set out to walk around. We walked around the city until we finally found the Te Papa Museum. I wasn’t that into it, but Sabrina and Holly are both marine biology majors so this was like getting a million dollars to them. I have to admit some of the stuff was really neat; we got to see the colossal squid. There have been two giant squid found in the world but the biggest was right off the coast of New Zealand and it’s housed in the Te Papa Museum. The museum was free so that was a plus for sure. Downstairs was mostly science and learning (I hate it) and upstairs art and clothing and history (which I love). The squid wasn’t as big as I thought it was going to be, but I guess if you think about it, a squid larger that an NBA star is a pretty big deal. Sabrina’s boss that she works under for her internship actually helped discover the colossal squid. He was even in the video of the scientists pulling it out of the water. After Te Papa we rode the cable car up this mountain to look at the botanical gardens. It was raining and it’s also winter so I feel like maybe it wasn’t the right time for a botanical garden tour, but never the less we went. While we were there I threw my leg up over this wall to retie my shoe and I tore my pants!!! It was awful and so uncomfortable. Worse than that, I found this neat statue and I was running over to it to get a picture with it and I slid in the mud and fell down. I slid probably 3 feet. I was filthy dirty and I promise that my butt is probably bruised. By the end of the day, walking around in the rain in my torn, muddy jeans, I was ready to just relax. We grabbed some dinner and then decided to go to the movies. I was ready to see something funny or exciting, we actually went to see Transformers but it was sold out, so Sabrina really, really, really, really wanted to see “Drag Me to Hell”. I hate scary movies and I told her that I refused to see it. I would rather go see a movie by myself. But then by the time we got up to the front of the very long movie line, that was the only one left. So I went to see it and it turned out to be the stupidest movie I’ve ever seen in my life. There were talking goats, the main actress was awful, and it had probably the worst ending in cinematic history… (I might be exaggerating but it was pretty bad).