Blue Pacific Apartments Paihia

... mit einem vom Meer ausgewaschenen Loch, der Name kam von Cook, weil ihn diese Formation an Geburt = pierce erinnerte - DIE Attraktion hier). Zum Glueck waren wir zur richtigen Zeit am richtigen Ort und mussten uns nicht zwischen beiden entscheiden, da sie an diesem Nachmittag kombiniert wurden (weil out of season).<br>Los gings also zur 4-stuendigen Fahrt durch die Insellandschaft vor Paihia - hier tummeln sich ganz viele kleine Inselchen, die oft nur keins ...

... and me ended up in one bed cuddling and rubbing Mink. Not funny at all- we had to literally save his life. Because when we did snorkelling the water was so cold that Mink felt into a cold shock and his heart stop for a few seconds. That's why Johannes and I had to warm him up- sharing one bed- to save his life. But all in all the trip was absolutely stunning.

... came up through the bottom of the bus we were pretty shocked but luckily it was only a little bit and no one got too wet. Next we visited the Ancient Kauri Kingdom. The Kauri tree is native to New Zealand and is very special to the Maoris. The oldest known Kauri tree grew for 7,ooo years. The oldest at present is 4,000 years old. The trees can grow to about 50 metres. The Kauri grows very quickly height wise between age 10 and 50 years and then they begin to grow outwards. The Kauri ...

... hadn't eaten those candies yet). With respect to the southern hemisphere, this confusing monster reared its head when I spent 30 minutes looking for the Fall/Winter 2008 version of the New Zealand travel magazine, thinking that the Spring 2008 version I had picked up was now out of date. [Editor's note #3: In his defense, the light bulb went on fairly quickly when I pointed out the lovely weather and the flowers in bloom here.] One of our favourite ...

... of the brothers who owns the farm shear a sheep and then he brought out some adorable lambs for us to hold. It had nothing to do with LOTR, but still kind of a neat treat at the end. I think you needed to be a die-hard LOTR fan to truly appreciate the tour, but it was still pretty fun, especially because Shannon was so into it. But now we need to see all the movies again because we don't remember much of it.

... didn't before I got here), they are basically the indigenous people of New Zealand that came from Polynesia. The language that they speak sounds like no other, and has been pretty interesting and difficult to learn. If you have looked at pictures that I have posted and been able to read the signs that are in pictures from around campus, the words under the english ones are in Maori. Our professor basically tells us ...

... We were told that if that was the right part then it should only take an hour to fix. So Denise took us to her house and went into her garden and picked us a huge bag of vegitables, we tried to everything we could, clean her garden, mow her lawn but she would have none of it. Turns out that it was the wrong part for our car though so we are in Kati for one more night. We're hoping with any luck that we should get out of here by noon tomorrow. And thats it for now.... Jenna

... to take the 10 AM architectural tour from the visitors center. Our guide was very informative and quite charming. He told us that in 1931, Napier was practically destroyed by an earthquake that registered 7.8 on the Richter scale. Over the next 12 hours, the town experienced over 100 more earthquakes. Over 150 people died and many more were injured. The town decided to immediately rebuild. At ...

... as I was waaay too busy stuffing my face with the most amazing blueberry muffin. It was just sooo very good. After our little break we headed off again, we were now travelling up the west coast of Northland, I was very surprised when I saw how hilly it was, I mean I knew that there was going to be mountains and volcanoes around, I just didn't really expect them to be there, you know, and it was sooooo green, I can't even describe how green it was, and they were ...