We had a great summer, a busy summer, but a great one.
June: We went a little crazy and bought a house. We signed the contract and 15 hours later we went on vacation. We spent nearly a week with Pinhweels’ side of the family including two days on a lake in a houseboat. We had [...]
Today we spent 12 hours in a train from Auckland to Wellington. The kids did very well. There were some teenagers in the row behind us and both the kids and the big kids were entertained throughout the day. We even had some great-grandparently passengers in the row in front of us [...]
We ended up taking another tour today to tour the city (Auckland) by bus, visit Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World and to take a harbor cruise. It was a nice bus ride and we enjoyed the penguin exhibit at Underwater World. The harbor cruise was nice, but I was very sleepy. Today is [...]
Today we were part of a tour group to visit the Waitomo Caves and Rotorua. The caves are famous for the glow worms and Rotorua is home to the Maori tribal people. Our first stop was the caves and due to an unfortunate fire yesterday we got to visit a different set of [...]
After traveling 2 days out of the last 3 days, we decided to make today a leisure day. Our hotel is almost right in the middle of downtown so we headed out this morning for breakfast and just wandered around from there. Just about a block from our hotel is a little side [...]
We were back at the airport today so we could head to New Zealand. We were to have an hour in Sydney and then head to Auckland. Each flight was 3 hours so just long enough to be exciting but not too long to drive anyone crazy. The flight to Sydney was [...]
We spent the day just roaming around Cairnes. We even shopped at a real mall. Of course, everyone had an accent but it felt so familiar after 2 years of being away from real shopping. We were able to borrow little car strollers so the kids didn’t even have to walk. [...]
Today we boarded our plane for Cairnes (pronounced cans), Australia. It’s less than 5 hours but it leaves at 8pm so it can be taxing. When we bought our tickets we used Pinwheels’ frequent flyer miles to pay for the 3 of us and only he had to buy a ticket. Well, [...]