Greetings everyone!!! Hope all is well with everyone at home. We have bee keeping extremely busy and have been having a great time. Since the last update we have had quite a bit of excitement. We spent a week in Queenstown, which as i mentioned is similar to Banff at home. They even have a singles night at the grocery store...if you have bananas in your basket, apparently you are looking...we though it was pretty funny, however we did not participa...

Kia Ora (Greetings in NZ) again everyone!! Well, I am sure all of you at home in the cold and snow will be glad to hear that we as well have been experiencing some cold weather. The South Island has welcomed us with some wind and rain, making it a bit chilly....but of course we have no let it slow us down and we have made the best of it all. After the wine tasting when we first arrived to the south island, we put ourselves into detox and went on the m...

Hi Guys So , we did write a long, extensive postcard but for some reason it did not post, so here we go again... So much has happened since we last wrote, so forgive us if this is a little long. After the Bay of Islands we headed south to a place called Raglan Beach. This is the most popular surf beach in NZ and there just happened to be a Ripcurl National Surf Comp on while we were there. So we spent a couple of days checking out the surfing, in...

Hi Trusty Readers!! Well, we have had an absolutely amazing week in the Bay of Islands. After some rainy weather on the way up to Norhtland, with a small pitstop at some natural hot springs waterslides (yes, oldest kids on the slides) and pool along the way, the sun managed to find us. We ventured onto an overnight cruise throughout the islands. We got on the boat on the Saturday night and were treated to a meal as close to home cooked as we have ha...

We thought we better write a postcard to let everyone know what we have been up to thus far. I am sure you got a general idea from the pictures, but this will fill you in a little more. When we first arrived in New Zealand we spent 5 days on Waiheke Island at Lindsey's sister's friend's place. It was a piece of paradise. Their place was only about a 2 minute walk from one of the many beaches on the island. We spent our time there exploring, beaching, d...