Matariki 2018

With one of my mid-year conferences occurring in New Zealand, it seemed like a good opportunity to visit whanau/family in Wellington and so I took a detour to see my brother and sister-in-law and their children for a couple of days. After visiting Te Papa (the museum on the waterfront) I went for a walk from my brother’s place up a nearby hill for a view (Wellington does hills very well; me, less so).

Then, in the evening, we celebrated Matariki, the Maori new year. There was a festival down on the waterfront, with dancing and lights and food and marshmallow toasting, and it was a fun night.