Clarion Suites Alpine Wanaka

... a place for kids and adults with a huge maze (that took forever to get out of) and different illusion type things all over. The next few days in Wanaka was pretty chill. <br>Josh was into skydiving and the other extreme activities while I did walks and local hikes. One night we went to this great little bar with fireplaces all over. We started talking to the bartender and she really didn't have any ...

... tour with, they have added a link to it on their website to promote tours. Also TravelPod have selected 5 photos from these last three blogs to be their featured photos on the homepage (whats really nice is that selection includes photos taken by all three of us). Also Steve has been really sucessful selling photos of the trip so far on stock websites for magazines etc to buy and print and is actually now making regular money from it! Who knew fun things could be rewarding too!<br>

... up to the airport with sweaty palms and not much chat and began to get the nervous giggles as people wobbled around in gaudy coloured jumping suits. Jess and I had talked about doing a skydive for months but it still seemed to come about very fast, feeling very clsoe once we were harnessed up. The build-up is minimised to help prevent fear and both our tandem jumpers were top blokes; Grant for me and Jef for Jess. Jeff seemed to ...

Set off smoke alarm in motel doing toast! Travelled to Wanaka over the Haast pass. Stopped at a beach on the west coast, there were strange piles of stones everywhere, and millions of biting sandflies. Took ages to extract them all from the car. Stopped next in the Haast Pass for some lunch. A bit further on was a spectacular waterfall. Lots more nice scenery before we reached b&amp;b ...

... pictures from my various trips to foreign countries and also pictures from home of family and friends on my flickr site. This new website is http://www.flickr.com/photos/amymillan/ collections. I hope this email finds you all happy and well. Drop me a line some time and let me know how things are going back in the states. Until next time! Take care, Amy

... rain still pouring, an indoor pursuit seemed appropriate. With this in mind we headed off to a place called Puzzling World and spent a fun couple of hours being 'puzzled' by various visual and sensory illusions and were just cross we'd not thought to bring our cameras to capture some of the moments. Although we were able to return on our last afternoon to take some snaps outside the building. The next morning, true to ...

... kids (who apparently have bionic ears when it suits them) about what he meant. I explained that when you rent something you must always treat it the same as you would if you owned it, and that Daddy was just kidding. In the end, navigating the fords was more exciting than dangerous (for us and the car) and the Sunny traversed the crossings with ease. Getting past all the sheep and cows that congregated on the roads is a different story... The ...

... Creek' car park, walk across a bridge, and then follow the trail. <br><br> <br><br>In practice, the "road" soon turned into an unsealed track, so we bumped along for about 45 minutes through mountains and ...

... into the valley the clouds disappeared, and with them the rain. HOORAH! (..."and there was much rejoicing"...)<br><br>This momentous event even brought a jubilant (if off-key) version of "The sun has got his hat on" from our intrepid ...

... meisje dat in Nijmegen ("Nijmegan" hihi) een NZ<br>piloot uit het water van de Rijn probeerde te redden, maar hier helaas niet in slaagde. Als dank voor haar moed, kreeg ze door zijn battaljon een nieuwe fiets geschonken, omdat haar oude tijdens haar reddingspogingen in het water, gestolen was.<br>Tragisch uiteraard, maar erg grappig om zoiets in zo'n museumpje tegen te komen.<br>De rest van de middag heb ik gespendeerd in het tegenover het museum gelegen "Have a ...