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At the CDC, behind the scenes<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Mmm, lamb <\/div>
We share a large pile of lamb (and potatoes) for lunch, from across the street from the hotel<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>At the Botanical Gardens <\/div>
Enjoying what might be out last day around plants<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Ed is quizzical <\/div>
Test photo after I suffer spontaneous camera damage. (Thankfully a UV filter was the only casualty)<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Spring time! <\/div>
In the southern hemisphere<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Big red hippo butt <\/div>
Hogging the bench<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Wandering around the gardens <\/div>
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<\/a>Ed poses <\/div>
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<\/a>Anne poses <\/div>
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<\/a>Cool flowers <\/div>
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<\/a>More flowers <\/div>
Apologies, but I need to enjoy plants while I can<\/div><\/div>
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Anne, Ed, and I have deployed as SPIDER’s first wave. Yesterday was our regularly-scheduled full day in Christchurch. This starts with a trip to the clothing distribution center (CDC) to get our extreme cold weather (ECW) clothing. Afterwards, we wandered around, explored Christchurch, and had some great food and drinks. Christchurch was devastated by an earthquake in early 2011, but repair and reconstruction has progressed remarkably. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6350"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6360,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions\/6360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}