Weta

Today we woke up and got ready to go to Weta.  Weta is a bug in New Zealand but there is also a company called Weta.  Weta is where they make props, armor, and bigatures.  They have made props for The Lord of the Rings series, King Kong, Avatar, and Halo.  It was pretty cool going through there.    We also got to see sculptures make the beginnings of props.  This one guy has been designing a statue that will be 100 feet tall and will be built in America.  They were also making trolls and a guy sitting on octopus tentacles. Bigatures are miniature  models of buildings or a prop they will use.  They call them bigatures because they said they are really too big to be miniatures.  Also if you see somebody fighting in what looks like really sharp metal in the background it is really rubber.  They make things look so real.  I have been learning songs on my ukulele today.  The hardest part about playing the ukulele is the strumming.  I also have been trying to draw the mutt in Mockingjay.  I have drawn at least 12 pictures of it and only 1 is really ok.  We leave Wellington on Saturday.  I have decided that I do not really like big towns.  Wellington is basically a little L.A.  I'm not going to miss it as much as Haurata.