Airforce Museum

Friday 18th December: A hot hot day. We packed up the motorhome and were ready to leave at 10am. We headed north on the SH1 (very blustery journey with the hot nor'wester bumping into the side of the motorhome) and arrived in Christchurch just before 1pm. We had hot dogs for lunch and then headed into the Airforce Museum. New Zealand no longer has an armed air response, but this museum traces the history of flight and air combat. We have been here twice before and love it. We love it even more now because it is free! The displays are great, there are flight simulators to have a go on, a large hangar with several aircraft in it, and restoration hangars you can look around. We spent a couple of hours looking at different displays than on previous visits and then headed across the city to our campsite in the north of Christchurch. The boys were keen to play in the playground and on the jumping pillow, and I walked up the road to get pizzas for tea. We ate our pizzas while watching "Monsters v Aliens" in the campsite movie room, then the boys played a little more until it had cooled down enough to get them off to bed. Steve returned to the movie room to watch "Star Trek".
Two of the photos are from the large hangar at the museum, and the other is of a "note" sent home from a Kiwi in a Japanese Prisoner or War camp - clearly he was a man of few words! I do like the options available, though!