Centra Auckland Airport Mangere

... stood with our feet in the sand and ejoyed the water.

Cathedral Cove - a beautiful hike through the rain forest to a cathedral shaped rock on a seculded cove. This is how nature intended us to pray. Ridiculously beautiful.

We got a little delayed getting to Waiheke Island, off the coast of Auckland, because of the Tsunami warning (they stopped running the ferries) but eventually we got there. Again, primal, beautiful ...

... enjoyed the group traveling I've done here. My birthday was amazing, celebrating with a bunch of people who I didn't know well at the time, but do now. My advice would be to do Kiwi Experience. Save up and sepnd a while in Queenstown, where your money disappears quicker than David Copperfield. My second piece of advice is come to New Zealand, it's AMAZING! From here, about 90% of people seem to go to Fiji. But not this guy! South America, here I come!!

... I do so want to show you Geghard in particular -this is the most ancient of cave churches, and in one of the photos you can see an actual cave church -the entire Monastery was built in the 4th century, and most of it is how it really was, Deep into this rocky, mountainous hillside Monastery we wandered , to various crypts, monk's cells , chapels etc there was even a little stream flowing through -said to be holy -we ...

After being rudely awoken by very inconsiderate dorm mates who think that its acceptable to turn the light on at 6am, I decided to get up anyway to get some pictures of the sunrise. I decided it would be a nice way to start my 25th year. I made it back to Auckland in time for the lovely dinner Liz had prepared, pork and Yorkshire puds, yummy! And so it was time for me to get stuck into the job hunt. I was only looking for a bit of temping, but unfortunately ...

... Americas Cup a few years ago. They certainly have a long sailing history and this is for sure the City of Sails! We have really enjoyed our stay in Auckland so far, but tomorrow we are picking up our car to drive up to Bay of Islands where we will stay at least 3 nights. But we are planning to go back to Auckland on Sunday and hopefully stay with Jon & Robyn and get to go out on their yacht. That would be great! Lots of love from The City of Sails XX L&M

... to wear green and I like festivities so don't care! My birthday was celebrated going to very very bad bars, i.e. cowboy bars and the like, but very enjoyable and the white trash in me does enjoy a bit of the cheesy music. And Warren's birthday was celebrated going to Waiheke island and biking from beach to beach (well two beaches actually) and having a drink stop in between. This particular day is when I ...

... the ship. On our arrival at the dock gates the media were there interviewing passengers both entering and leaving the port. As always some people can't miss the opportunity of either being filmed or giving their opinions to the press, so there was no shortage of takers waiting to be interviewed, let me pass I need a drink!! After dinner we went to the theatre to watch the resident group perform their number, which as usual was an absolutely brilliant ...

... much, we hike, except on this boat you could not.   First of all, there were metal railings that made it impossible to sit on a side.  Secondly, there were no foot straps to keep you from falling out.  It was amazing how fast we were going, and how far we were heeling over. If we had been in Dad's sailboat, I'm pretty sure that we would have flipped. I guess the 14 tons of lead that was part of our keel was doing its job. On our way into the harbor, we saw two Lasers (very small ...

... at us on our Matheson Lake walk near the Fox Glacier...freaky; · The fact that eggs are not refrigerated in the grocery stores...we found this troubling, but not so much that we didn't feed them to our children; · The number of birds that are too slow to move off the highway...as we have documented in previous blogs I have found it difficult to actually get up to the posted speed limit with all the hills and sharp curves but I have still managed ...

... nt to) then down through Afric*, over to South Americ*, he*d up to the St*tes (Hickey, we should m*ke ro*d trip pl*ns), C*n*d*, *nd then home. God knows how long it'll t*ke me - I know I s*id no more th*n two ye*rs, but there's just so much out there, I'm st*rting to re*lise th*t now. Look how tiny NZ is, *nd I could've spent three months here *nd still not done everything. But I think wherever I go, I'm bound to miss out on something - the import ...