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The following two posts are going to be short and sweet. This is due to the fact that we were in transition both Saturday and Sunday, traveling from Queenstown to Christchurch and then flying from Christchurch to Auckland and then from Auckland to Sydney. Lots of time in an airport! We rented a bus for the 6 hour drive through New Zealand which was really quite beautiful. Unfortunately, I kept falling asleep. No surprise there. Then we explored Christchurch and the earthquake damage. Christchurch was eerily quiet. It was unnerving, as though there was no one left in the city. It has been a year since the first major earthquake but there were two other large aftershocks in June and then again in December. Around 200 people died in the Christchurch earthquake, making it New Zealand's greatest natural disaster in history. Glad I got to see it all, glad I didn't have to stay more than a few hours. 

the city was closed down

a church used to be at this spot