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HMSNZ Canterbury

Yesterday, on my lunchtime walk, I noticed that the HMSNZ Caterbury, which is a very large sea lift ship, was moored in Wellington Harbour.  As I got closer, I saw that they were offering guided tours to the public, and thought it would be fun to check out a real navy ship.  I still had plenty of time on my lunch, so I didn't think a quick tour would be an issue.

Oh how wrong I was!

Here is the issue: I didn't realize it at the time, but they weren't just offering one or two tours, they were offering several tours.  Now, because of the security issues, the tours had to be guided tours; let's face it, you can't just let civilians run around on a warship unsupervised.  As there were many tours going on simultaneously, once you arrived to a destination on board, such as the bridge or the hanger deck, you couldn't simply move on to another destination as it was occupied by another tour group.  Instead, you had to wait and wait and wait until the other tour (or tours) have moved off.

The entire tour, which I thought might take 15 minutes, took almost two hours!  I was stuck on board a warship for two frigging hours!  Don't get me wrong, learning about the ship was interesting, but being stuck in the cargo hold, or the ship's hospital for 20 minutes at a time, kind of got boring.

Luckily, when I arrive back at work and told my boss about my abduction, she was cool about it.  Still, I've got to make up the time later.  Fair is fair.