June 16-23, 2011. We arrived in Auckland after our nice stay in Figi, only to be welcomed by the cool winter months in New Zealand. This is when Jen and I split from our wonderful traveling SCUBA group, rented a car, and took off on a short adventure of the North Island. We drove across and through the big gorge to Gisbone, the first city in the world to see the new day. After a nice dinner at the Wisconsin Burger, we found a place to crash... sleeping once again in the back seat of our car. We woke up early to watch the sunrise on the beach, as if we were the only ones up to start the new day...everyone else either fast asleep or still living in "yesterday." After the cloudy sunrise we headed south towards Napier, tasting all the fine wines at various Hawk's Bay vineyards. Finding some delicious Semillion and Muscat, while Jen bought a wonderful Huchet. :) After our vineyard crawl, we continued our drive inland towards Taupo. Spent the night and got up early to head back towards Rotarua, as we had to finish out fun adventures there. Earlier we had done the Zorb... a very fun activity of rolling down a big hill in a giant plastic ball, similar to that of a hamster ball, a very fun ride. Then we continued to try out the SCWEEB: a elongated bike put in a plastic horizontal tube and strapped to a race track. The world record was 56 seconds.... so naturally I had to try for it. Sadly, I finished in 64 seconds....winning the world record for Japan, Great Britain, Italy, and Australia... to bad I wasn't from any of those countries, as it really didn't count. That morning, we had a HAKA lesson (the Maori war dance) and had a GREAT time learning that from the man who coached the Maori Rugby team in New Zealand. After all the fun we drove back to Hamilton. There we had a nice visit with Katie and Paul, friends from my last visit to NZ. It was soo nice seeing them once again. We went out to dinner and had the finest Mexican cuisine New Zealand has to offer. We crashed at their place for the evening, and then headed out bright and early the next morning to get back to the airport and meet up with Mr.Z. :)
June 16-23, 2011. We arrived in Auckland after our nice stay in Figi, only to be welcomed by the cool winter months in New Zealand. This is when Jen and I split from our wonderful traveling SCUBA group, rented a car, and took off on a short adventure of the North Island. We drove across and through the big gorge to Gisbone, the first city in the world to see the new day. After a nice dinner at the Wisconsin Burger, we found a place to crash... sleeping once again in the back seat of our car. We woke up early to watch the sunrise on the beach, as if we were the only ones up to start the new day...everyone else either fast asleep or still living in "yesterday." After the cloudy sunrise we headed south towards Napier, tasting all the fine wines at various Hawk's Bay vineyards. Finding some delicious Semillion and Muscat, while Jen bought a wonderful Huchet. :) After our vineyard crawl, we continued our drive inland towards Taupo. Spent the night and got up early to head back towards Rotarua, as we had to finish out fun adventures there. Earlier we had done the Zorb... a very fun activity of rolling down a big hill in a giant plastic ball, similar to that of a hamster ball, a very fun ride. Then we continued to try out the SCWEEB: a elongated bike put in a plastic horizontal tube and strapped to a race track. The world record was 56 seconds.... so naturally I had to try for it. Sadly, I finished in 64 seconds....winning the world record for Japan, Great Britain, Italy, and Australia... to bad I wasn't from any of those countries, as it really didn't count. That morning, we had a HAKA lesson (the Maori war dance) and had a GREAT time learning that from the man who coached the Maori Rugby team in New Zealand. After all the fun we drove back to Hamilton. There we had a nice visit with Katie and Paul, friends from my last visit to NZ. It was soo nice seeing them once again. We went out to dinner and had the finest Mexican cuisine New Zealand has to offer. We crashed at their place for the evening, and then headed out bright and early the next morning to get back to the airport and meet up with Mr.Z. :)
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