Whit and I landed in Auckland after flying in the least sleepable planes in the skies, thank you Garuda Indonesia. Yet, their cheap!
12 hours of flying and 4 countries later, Whit and I stumbled bleary eyed around Auckland to see a few sights. Slept like babies at the wonderful City Garden Lodge and hopped into a hired car to cruise down to Rotarua.
Left hand driving is interesting enough, but why did they switch the sides of the bloody blinker and wiper? I'm still wiping my way into the left lane - I might break this habit in about a year.
Arrived in Rotarua in time to hit a hot spring spa, have dinner, and promptly pass out. Dragging our jet-lagged butts from bed at 10 am and filled the day with a park full of geysers, boiling mud, Maori dancing, then rode some Zorbs, and lastly went to an excellent Hungi (Maori food cooked in the ground, dances, and a hike in a sacred forest).
Today we scraped ourselves from bed at 9 and drove through beautiful mountains to Taupo and attempted to go sky diving. Yet, the weather foiled our plans so we continued through the rain to Napier where we whittled the rainy afternoon away with soup and movies.
W day is approaching with a drive to Wellington tomorrow and work the next morning... holy hell.
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