Penguins and Puzzles In NZ

Puzzling World ~ by Tejas

We flew from North Island to South Island New Zealand. We went to a dazzling called Puzzling World.  It’s a amazing place that is literally made of puzzles.  There were four main puzzles the Great Maze, the Puzzle Room, the Illusion room, and the Tilted Tower. 

The Great Maze is a maze with four towers on each corner.  On each tower there is the real entrance and the fake entrance.  You must get to the real entrance all the way up to the top and then do that three more times than get to the exit and then you can say you completed the great maze.  Me and my family did a challenge who could finish the maze first.  It was me and Jovan vs. Mom, Dad, and Nix.  In the end me and Jovan won because we did all the steps.

The Puzzle Room is a room with a bunch of tables and a restaurant.  On each table there were four complex puzzles.  One puzzle was a puzzle with Kiwi birds.  Me and my Dad did this kiwi bird puzzle and we got it first try but it took a while.  We also had a little bit of help from one of the staff.  In the end we finished it. 

The Illusion room is a room full of optical illusions.  These are like objects that when you move they turn or when you look at this picture from two different areas one time it’s smiling and the next it’s frowning.  As you walk through the illusion room you will see the hall of faces.  There were face as that looked at you if you looked a different direction.  The faces were Winston Churchill, Mother Teresa, Albert Einstein, and Vincent Van Gogh. 

The Illusion room eventually leads you into the Tilted Tower.  This Tower is literally tilted like if you were to stand in the middle of one room you would fall.  You got to watch water move backwards and see what’s would happen if your building was tilted. In the end we were all puzzled on how they did it.  This adventure through the puzzling world was truly amazing.     

Blue Penguin Colony Reserve ~ by Nix

We drove three hours from Christchurch to Oamaru, to the Blue Penguin Colony reserve we had to dress  really warm and meet there at 08:15PM once the sun starts to set the penguins come back to the reserve for the night they swim to shore and climb up the hill. They all walked past us and they were cute and small and there wings were blue, which is why we call them blue penguins. My mom thought they were so cute, she wanted to take one home to Canada and name it Pixy, and give the penguin my room and bed, but you were not allowed to take the animals, it is illegal.





Here are some facts about Blue Penuins. 
1. It is the smallest penguin of all penguins
2. A grown up blue peguins weighs 2.6 pounds
3. They do most of their work in the night and sleep in the day
4. They can only be found in Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania