Monday, November 2, 2009

New Zealand







Contacted a farm who were delight to have us, we set up a time to get picked up the next week. It was down from Auckland (where we flew into) about an hour and a half so we decided to head down there and camp and see the sights down that way........ hmmm. We took a buss down and found out the hard way Hamilton is a rather grungy city with not much of anything going on unless you want to spend lot's of money on food or go out drinking. So it put us in quite a pickle when the farmers e-mailed two days before we were to meet up and say that they didn't want us to come now till the end of the next month!! Back to square one....we contacted a few more farms and found a great sounding place on Whakie Island off the coast of Auckland (you know that place we had just spent all that money to come down from) only they couldn't have us for another week either......

We have found that the public transport isn't all that good and it is quite pricey. Been planing on buying a car but it turns out that all the cheep cars were taken to the junk yards about a year or two ago when scrap metal was so high so were still hunting.. ANY way we hired (rented) a car for four days and traveled all around, national parks, black sand beaches some hikes, water falls, and BIG mountains, we also did a great hike around a old volcano. It is SO beautiful it's really incredible! Aja has been in heaven with all the lamborghini, Bentleys, austin martins ect! I personally am a big fan of the clasic minis (There so cute!!!!)

It's been fantastic and were very much looking forward to the next 5 months!


That is all the past few weeks I will catch you up on the Island work soon!

LoVe-PeaCe


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