Wellington and the Great War Exhibition

Back in October 2015 we were on a cruise and found ourselves in Wellington quite unexpectedly. 
At the time we promised ourselves that we'd get back to Wellington to see the Great War Exhibition, and now we're going to do that.
I have the first week of January 2018 on leave - the original intention was to extend my enforced Christmas leave and go on a cruise (which would have taken us to Wellington).  However, we decided against that in the end; cruises are just too expensive during the school holidays.
So, instead, I'll be doing my first non-cruise-related trip to New Zealand.  Singapore Airlines flies direct from Canberra to Wellington which is really convenient; going to Sydney first is an expensive and slow way to get out of the country.  We're going to fly there on New Years Day and back on the Friday.
The only serious plan we have is to visit the Great War exhibition, but there are certainly other things to see and do in Wellington, so it should hopefully be a nice (cool!) break before my last few, hectic months at work.

On another note, we're now getting to the point where it's possible to start planning for next year's big holiday and cruise.  As is always the case, we're going to have to settle on a date fairly soon - this time the controlling factor is the flight out of Australia. 
We're going to avoid the "Canberra-Sydney-huge flight to London in economy" approach this time.  Instead, the plan is to fly direct from Canberra to Singapore in economy, then fly business class with Finnair to London.  Their business fares are quite reasonable, particularly given that we're only flying one-way.  But, we're going to have to book soon to get a seat.  So, it looks like we'll leave here on 2 October 2018.