waitangi parkDear fel­low Wel­ling­tonis­tas and the good people of Wel­ling­ton in gen­er­al,

If the weath­er is as gor­geous tomor­row as it is today, you must do what I did at lunch­time today – get golden crisp fish’n chips from Thorndon Fish’n Chips (don’t let the name fool you, it’s next to A‑Mart and across the road from Chaf­fers New World) and park your ass down in the divine Wait­angi Park like many oth­ers are doing, and just enjoy the atmo­sphere. You should also check out the Earth from Above exhib­i­tion, and take off your shoes to run around on the giant map of the world, stomp­ing on any coun­tries you don’t like.

Hav­ing watched its con­struc­tion out the win­dow (err, from a satel­lite Wel­ling­tonista cam­pus) and via wel­lurb­an for the past year, we’re hap­pily in a place where we could say that if it was pos­sible, we’d get mar­ried to the park, and hold the recep­tion in the spie­gal tent.

It just needs a couple more rub­bish bins to make it truly per­fect…