Day 4 Dunedin

This morning we had a little bit of a sleep-in,  we are still not use to the time difference here. Once up and ready to go we headed into down town Dunedin to Cadburys Chocolate Factory for a tour. Because it is nearly Christmas the factory wasn't running but we still got to see a 1 tonne of chocolate pour out like a fountain in one of the silos. We also had a bag of samples given to us and a little cup of melted chocolate. The tour wasn't great but the shop at the end have chocolate for a good price. We just had to buy some Jaffas for where we were about to go next.

Baldwin St in Dunedin is the steepest street in the world according to the Guinness book of records.  Every year,as part of the Cadbury chocolate festival, 20,000 Jaffas are released from the the top of Baldwin Street to see which one will make it to the bottom first.  Looking up the street, it doesn't seem to be all that steep, but once you start climbing, you sure feel it.  We climbed to the top of the street (our fitness workout for the day!), complete with our bag of Jaffas.  We took it in turns to roll Jaffas down the street - It sure is hard to get them to roll down the middle of the road without bouncing into the kerb.  It was a closely contested event, but in the end we think Daniel might just have come out in front.

After Baldwin St, we headed back into down town Dunedin and had subway for lunch, followed by a trip to the Cinema to watch The Hobbit part 2 - The Desolation of Smaug, (We were actually in Cunema Sux!) The movie was pretty good, and we all enjoyed it more that the first Hobbit movie.  It's not exactly true to the book, more like a Peter Jackson "re-imagining" of the Hobbit story.  Either way, it was a quite enjoyable.


After the movie, we headed back to the apartment to freshen up, before heading out to Dinner with Logan, Jane, Grace and Chelsea, friends from Dunedin, who spent some time in Adelaide 18 months ago on a work assignment.  We had a lovely dinner and an enjoyable evening.  It was nice to catch up on what's been happening and to share a laugh.