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, [...]
My sweet blog-mama Sarahk got married to FrankJ. They went all the way back to Texas to tie the knot. I haven’t been able to look at pictures yet, but I’m sure they are wonderful.
Congratulations, Mamacita & Frank!
It’s official! We received our orders for Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, for the spring. Yay! In January we will start the process of getting our 2nd vehicle and household goods shipped back to the states.
3 months to go.
We had an early birthday party for Peanut last weekend. He turns 4 while we’re in New Zealand so we had a bouncy castle and two families over for a fun afternoon. The night before the party we had our family dinner of waffles (chosen by Peanut) and Peanut opened all of his [...]
If you ordered a calendar at the end of October, wouldn’t you expect it to be for the next year and not the current year? Wouldn’t you?
Well, I did. I admit, I did not pay attention to the year when I ordered it. I’ve never had a problem in the past and [...]