Well todays mission is to go out and find an adapter, I decided to walk over to Albert Park first and then swing back into the city onto Queen Street to find something.
Albert Park brought back the glimmer of excitement and wonder back into me as the disappointed of yesterday really sucked the joy out of me.
I walked quietly past a group of old people doing yoga early in the morning, I thought, that is pretty cool, very peaceful place to stretch and keep active right in the middle of the city. The park seems very well laid out, on top of a bit of a hill and gets you above the noise of the cars. The main promenade has a large gazebo that resembles a Japanese pagoda. Sort of detracts a bit of character and seems out of place. A really neat thing I noticed was the giant trees (later learned to be Kaori Trees) are enormous. They are huge trunked trees but are very squat and short. These have to be the largest trees I have ever seen including all the trees in the cemetary at school. Also noted that at this point I have never seen ANY of these trees or plants before, very out of my element in Albert Park as things look like they could be related to things at home but I just cant put my finger on it.
After a while I wander down the road a bit finding that many of these large trees hang right over the road and have very little vertical clearance for cars or pedestrians. Wondering if its because these trees are historic and worth keeping even in an inconvient state. Also it seems NZ is not as concerned with liabilities such as low clearance or unsafe slopes and stairs. No ADA rules here.
I scour all of Queen Street and realize that nobody really understands what I need except one camera store, he tells me I dont need a converter but just the adapter depending on what things are going to be used. He tells me to head back to the hotel and check the cords of my cameras, psp, laptop and look to see if they have built in converters. So this is what I did, head back to my hotel with a whopper, fries, L&P soda, and 2 packets of ketchup
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