Hello everyone!!
Haven't got much to update you on, we just arrived a few days ago in New Zealand. I think we were a little sad to say goodbye to Australia but were very excited to meet up with Vaden Kurt and Kyle here in NZ. Besides we will both be back someday soon(lisa very soon). We flew into Auckland about 6:30am and were soooooooo happy to see the boys!!! Such a strange but great feeling to meet up with familular faces in a different country.
After catching a Taxi we made our way back to the hostel the guys booked, and then went to starbucks to try and get some caffiene in us so we could face the day. Didn't really work, Lisa and I ended up having naps anyway. We stayed in Auckland for about 2 days, and we mostly just walked around the city or chilled at the hostel. Auckland reminded us a little bit of sydney and a little bit of calgary. It Looks a lot like downtown Sydney but has the feel of downtown calgary. During our small explorations of the city we managed to find a good kebab place and a massive music store, which was so amazing that I would move to Auckland jsut for that store. They have crazy sales on millions of records and cds selling them for as little as 2 dollars. It's like a warehouse just full of cds, books, records, mags, all for great prices, and incredible variety. I picked up a random cd by Denison Whitmer and it turned out to be awesome, considering I only bought it because the album art was cool. Turned out to be 2 dollars very well spent.
After our 2 days in Auckland we went to go pick up our rental vehicle, the RAV 4. We thought it was like a jeep sort of thing, with a roof rack and reasonable space for 5 passengers. So we head on down to the place and pay and then we go take a look at our sweet wheels. Turns out there is no roof rack and lets just say we were going to be nice and squishey in our little RAV. Biggest problem was, how are we going to fit 5 people's backpacks, a didge and a guitar case in the thing? Vaden is good at tetris so we figured we would find a way, and with a lot of bungee cords and a tarp we sure did. Of course our makeshift roof rack had to be re-evaluated about every 15 minutes at first, but eventually we got the thing nice and secure and we were off.
First stop we planned was the Bay of Islands, so here we are in Paihia, a nice little coastal town. The boys wanna go diving, so we might head south and find a good place for that. We want to go to Lake Tuapo and the watimo caves. Travelling NZ is a bit different than Australia, because we don't really have any concrete plans on where to go, and what to check out. So we're just gonna kind of drift around. Hopefully see some of the Lord of the rings sets, like the shire. Bungee jump, and sky dive? We shall see.
Keep you posted. For now we are heading south and that is all I know.
Take care all
LOVE YOU ALL.
T and L
