Lita and the Coach are coming to visit in January and we are planning to tour the South Island for a week or two. I was looking on the web for activities and remembered Fred and Myrtle's Paua Shell House, which rivals Houston's Orange Show for sheer kitsch wackiness. Even though they looked askance at me for coming from the dreaded Auckland, I feel privileged to have visited when Fred and Myrtle were still alive - despite what that link says, they've both gone on to the great iridescent abalone in the sky...