New Zealand 2022
Monday- jet lag arrive and drive to rotorua pizza dinner at the house evening lantern walk at the redwoods
Tuesday - rained out zip line everything soaking wet! Chill back at the house rained all day. Dinner at house of spice Indian - walk Kuirau park. Cannon croc falls into hot thermal lake Gwen wants to sleep and is grumpy
Wednesday- hobbit on movie set tour. Pond farm and hillside climb. Skyline luge … let’s do it again! Cannon croc kicked off track. Cannon croc falls off while riding down
Thursday- yummy fresh bakery waitomo spellbound glow worm caves private tour- veronica (late and missed her tour) joins us and our tour - feeding eels in the river bush walk picnic rain otorohanga kiwi house hail storm Chinese takeout for dinner
Friday- 3 hr zip line and okere falls walk (Brielle cannon Gwen Chad horseback riding) souvenir shopping kerosene creek (everything smells like sulfur for days) pizza for dinner
Xmas eve Saturday redwoods mountain bike trails. Gwen and Isabelle want to quit after 30 minutes. Ben says he will bring them and they Try to get back to the beginning but can’t. After an hour, they Finally make it back to the starting place and me Ben and cannon go for a little ride. Cannon does great! Drove to mount manganui Waterfall hike and swim. Very strong current the boys make it to the rope and climb next to the waterfall. Grocery shopping ($200 for 2 days) beach at sunset Christmas Eve pass the parcel New Zealand children’s story, whirligig candle and Luke 2
Sunday Christmas morning stockings and yummy coffee cake for breakfast. Eat candy all morning, listen to piano guys on YouTube get ready for church at 12 nobody there. Talk to elder platt go to the beach. Steak and potatoes dinner hike to the top of mount mainganui. Brielle broke Eva’s sand dollar :( we thought cannon did it and so we played truth or dare to get him to tell us the truth. Brielle was so scared when she broke the sand dollar she dropped it and ran away. We all had to clean it up. She confessed in the car ride and cried. Across Eva would be so mad- but she wasn’t.
Monday potatoes steak eggs breakfast clean up house beach parking full so Ben drops us off- Brielle cannon and Connor do trampoline - we rent scooter- play at fun beach ocean for 1 hour pb jelly at the park drive to Auckland for flight to queens town — hustle worried about making the flight.. plenty of rain and wait. Fly all the way to queen town (1.45 hr) and try to land twice. Pilot decides to fly all the way back to Auckland — what a crazy turn for our trip. Stranded and rebooked flight for Wednesday. Late booking for Airbnb take 3 Uber - everyone so hungry we walk to gas station and get donuts, milk and some weird fried meat Pattie’s through a tray box.
Tuesday Auckland Museum walk downtown arcade games food court at the mall and avatar movie
Wednesday early flight from Auckland to Queenstown jet boat river crazy spin driver “I wanna go home” freaked out when it started. All over “I wanna go again”-cannon
Bungee jump for sam Isabelle Chad picnic at the bay walk downtown swimming and shopping - fish and chips. Walk back to the parked cars.
Thursday pack up for overnight fjord boat cruise drive 2 hr to ferry.. bus ride 45 minutes then get on overnight boat - weather then Windy and raining seals and waterfalls. Kayak and boat rain and really wet. Dinner is delicious and small portion dessert- lemon sponge cake or chocolate tart- yum 😋
Friday sunshine in the fjord cruise bus ferry car ride and cannon puke… eat and hang out- turn in rental car too early for flight back to Auckland
Saturday goodbye Bangerter’s 😢 drove to skeens house and bakery lunch pies chicken kebab and treats strawberries picking visitors center. Melted chocolate and gorge on strawberries. Fish n chips for dinner playing and fun. Kiwi Hotel and watch castaway. Cannon enthralled
Sunday check out of hotel breakfast and candy chocolate milk from grocery store airport line over an hour- security and airport lounge for food and drinks. 3 hr to Fiji — airport Lounge food and drinks. 7 hours to Honolulu arrive at 3:30 am January 1st - home and in bed at 4.
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