It's been a while now.

So I'd say we're pretty situated. Julie's weeding and ask I try to catch everyone up. It's been 6 weeks in Wellington. A lots happened so I’ll try to keep it a little organized.
Wellington is very lush, we have 6-8ft fern trees in our yard and Tuis which make an amazing set of warbles that sounds a little like R2D2. We're about 1 hour from wine country which is a nice bonus we didn't count on too much. I've been indoor climbing in some of my free time, took Julie on Thursday night and I think we both had a blast. Julie is working a lot and getting into the swing of things, lots of of little differences in the structure of the job. I’ve been playing house husband, lots of cooking and cleaning.
We've had our first guest, thanks Ryan, and took him around a little bit. We tried skiing with Ryan (our first trip to N Island ski fields), but got rained off. Then I got one weekday with Ryan while Julie worked. We visited one of the in city nature preserve with Ryan and saw more birds, giant bugs and dinosaur descendants, the tuarara. All native. We also saw some more seals up close with Ryan along the beach. They stink for the record. We went up to Rotorua(also stinky) too and Taupo . We did see a whale which along the coast, it was quite far away though.
We've made friends! It's cheesy but it's been nice. One of Julie's co-worker recognized how cool Jules is and invited us on the above ski weekend with some other friends. We got rained off the mountain, again. Possibly the worst weather I've skied in. I don't think I've been that wet since my first season in non water proof clothes. Made an excellent roast and played games all day. We lucked out on the second day with them and got light clouds clearing to blue skies for an intense half day of riding. I know we all had the biggest grins after some good exploring. I get along awesome with co-workers' husband so it's been awesome. He's invited me surfing and kite-boarding(I'll have to man up about being such a wuss in cold water). We've also talked about going to the top of our ski field(more on that) and some other hiking or tramping.
So New Zealand geography/geology is a bit crazy. The North Island is very different that the South Island. Very, very volcanic. Our ski field is on an active volcano (Mt Ruapehu), it erupted in 1996(?) and has had lahars (mudflows triggered by volcanic activity) since. There’s a volcanic crater lake that stays unfrozen year round but is surrounded by snow year road, that’s the source of the lahars... There's two ski fields on it that are both at risk technically. North of there is Lake Taupo in a giant volcanic 'super caldera', like Yellowstone valley. Further north is Rotorua(which Ryan and I visited), known as 'sulfur city'. The whole city smells like sulfur, strong. There's boiling pools in the city park. There's boiling puddles right by the lake shore. Between Rotorua and Taupo are a series of volcanic parks, feature geysers, boiling lakes(most small), boiling rivers, hot streams that smell like kerosene, etc. There’s a village buried in ash, a mountain that’s split from volcanic activity, etc. We did visit one of the parks and we can share the pictures if you missed them. Further north is a heated beach and even further North is White Island, pretty much just a volcano in the ocean, which you can visit.
So that’s my attempt at summing up the last few weeks. There have also been cable type ‘swing’ bridges and weird pinnacles, and unsuccessful attempts at spotting penguins. Lots of homemade Mexican and Indian food. Even some good Mexican food out with margaritas. So much cool stuff, but it is feeling like normal life too. Pretty awesome stuff.

Wellington summed up

"Well, it's windy. But it's actually a lovely place, where you're pretty much surrounded by water and the bay. The city itself is quite small, but the surrounding areas are very reminiscent of the hills up in northern California, like Marin County near San Francisco and the Bay Area climate and some of the architecture. Kind of a cross between that and Hawaii."
From Peter Jackson i guess he directed some movie?
Since I'm house husband it's probably one of my responsibilities to communicate more. I'll try to start providing more regular updates. Suffice to say we're both pretty busy and having fun. We had a blast with Ryan visiting, lots of huge home cooked meals and wine to be enjoyed. Even got some skiing in.