Exploring day 2

Today hubby played golf and so I went off into the city and had a ride on the tourist tram, was  very interesting to hear the drivers stories...no building over 7 stories any more in Christchurch, and the cost of the repairs is just staggering, one building has had more spent in repairs than it cost to build the building in the first place!!!

cicadas have hatched and are singing away up in the trees...makes me remember my childhood, always a sign of summer to me!

outside the new council offices

Re Start...where the shops from the cbd are now, food places, cafes, cloths shops, banks, they are all here in 60 +containers and will be here for another year.

this might be me in my dotage taking the dog for a walk!!! Lol!!!!

there is a lot of street art on the walls of exposed buildings through out the city..some of it is most beautiful..

a wall of containers to protect the road as demolition happened.

these phone boxes are all over the city and they even  have phones in them..some also have free wifi

this old clock tower has been restored and had the legs strengthened since the earthquakes

and this pretty ordinary photo is a memorial to fire fighters everywhere...made from steel taken out of the ruin of the World Trade centre. 

Tonight of course is Friday Night With Friends....we are going out for dinner but later I will be sewing along!

Happy sewing.