"Palmy"

Last weekend we took a road trip to Palmerston North (Palmy to the locals).  It's a 45 minute drive down highway 3 south-east of Wanganui.  It's population is 85,000 which means it has decent shopping and a real mall!  The town is centered on a town square which is where we explored.

One of the many fields filled with sheep and strangely manicured huge tree-hedges

There really are more sheep than people here!

Lunch at "The Coffee Club" on the square

Mimi loves the pumpkin soup, which is the winter specialty around here.  It's really delicious!

Posing on the square

Great museum in Palmy

Julia made herself right at home in the kids area.  It was so sweet to see her playing kitchen again.  Her play kitchen is one of the things she misses the most from home.  We were there a LONG time and I was so happy to see her having so much fun.

Julia serving me my favorite treats.  She's the best chef!

A funky old camper van on display (with a daddy photo-bomb)

Cris and Ben at the Rugby museum

Beautiful poppies - even in the winter

We were beyond excited to find a lil orbits stand - halfway around the world!  We had to get a bucket of them - with "from Minneapolis, MN" on the bucket

A mall - a real mall!  They didn't shop long when they realised that their money doesn't go far down here.  Neither does mine!