Lunch with Heidi

We stayed at Mischa's house.  Mischa is a friend of Heidi's who works for the U.S. State Department here.  She ended up living in a big house and was willing to share it with us. 
Here are some pics of her house:

 
This is her house with the stairs going up.

 

 

The front room and living rooms

And the coolest part of the house was the bathtub in our bathroom. 

There was also a shower that I don't have a picture of, but this was so classy!

 

 

  

 

These are houses across the street from Mischa's.  It is reminiscent of San Francisco-right?

 We wanted to meet Heidi for lunch and see her office.   Here is our path on the stairs into Wellington. It was beautiful!!

We were actually going down the stairs, but I didn't want Jerry to take a picture of me from behind, so I turned around. 








It's so exciting to be in New Zealand!!

What a surprise!  We came out of the woods into this park. 

This sign made us laugh.  "Woof, woof, Ruff--Dog Exercise Area."  (And there were no dogs in sight--just us getting our exercise.)














  We made it to Heidi's office.  She works for Transpower.

Heidi is smiling, she loves this job!

 

After meeting her co-workers and seeing the office area, we walked a couple of blocks to "Sushi to Go."

  The sushi was amazing!

 

 

 

We went to a park and  ate our lunch. 

Oh yeah, right.  You're just putting your change away.

 

Jerry got meat on a stick instead of sushi.  It has peanut sauce on it.  He liked it!

 

Are you teasing me?  That hurt my feelings....

 

The city is clean and pretty.  There is no litter or homeless. The

people are dressed professionally.

 

 

This was in the park.  Funny.

 

It is a mixture of the old with the new. 
(The building...the building.)

  

  Jerry likes dogs.

 

We looked around the downtown area,

went to an art museum, and took the cable car home.

 

 

By the way, this map shows  where Heidi lives.  The red buildings are Parliament.  She lives across Hill St. from  Parliament in the narrow, small  rectangle building.  Cool!