New Zealand

What a beautiful country! We were here for 8 days, on the north island, and that is not nearly enough time. There is so much to see and do. We took so many pictures, I will try to get it on picasa when we get home, as quickly as I can! Just a few highlights of our trip, we rented an RV, and the family along with Casey took a trip, we started in Auckland, and ended here as well. Our first stop was hot water beach, on coromandel peninsula, we got there a little after low tide, found some people and a spot and dug for hot water, what a cool (and hot) spot! Then we found a place called cathedral cavern, and took a longish walk down to that, totally worth it! The next day we were in the bay of plenty, and we climbed a mountain there (a little one), very nice views. Then on to lake taupo, where we did some hot spring pools, a walk to a waterfall, a honey hive place, then back to some more natural pools, a spring that flowed into a river, way cool! We also saw lots of beautiful scenery, lots of little roads in our big RV. The last thing that we did was the glow worm caves, we saw a kiwi bird, and then we did the Hobbitton tour! I think that was Casey's favorite. That was it in a nutshell, but it was a blast, I would do it again! We are so coming back to this country when the kids are older!

Hope all is well with everyone, will be back in melbourne soon.