Loving Auckland

We're still in Auckland and leaving in the morning for a slow drive down to Wellington. Auckland is so beautiful we're almost hoping we dont like Wellington because we'd love to settle here.

I'm not sure what the biggest adjustments will be but I think the traffic and the food will be on the list.

The speed limit here is 50km/h on residential roads and 100km/h on the highway. People are very polite, everyone slows to let people into the traffic, we've heard no hooting yet and a bus driver even stopped to ask if we needed to do a u-turn. It sounds wonderful but can be frustrating when you're used to faster paced more aggressive driving. I can already picture the newspaper headlines "South African in road rage incident".

As for the food, it all looks fantastic and tastes horrible. I'm living on Reece's Peanut Butter cups and tinned rice pudding. I hope we find something edible soon! The baby food comes in many more varieties though than we're used to - Isabella has been loving couscous with harvest vegetables and rhubarb and polenta :)