Yesterday we drove from Queenstown to Christchurch, New Zealand. It took us about seven hours but it was GORGEOUS. We stopped along the way and got some fantastic pictures. Last night we were sight-seeing’ed out and went to a movie. Avatar. It was fantastic! I’d highly recommend seeing it. I know I should post more [...]
Archive for December, 2009
18 Dec
Queenstown
We’ve been in Queenstown for a few days now and we absolutely love it. It’s small enough so that you can walk everywhere (or rather, we can walk into town from our flat) but large enough so that there is a ton of stuff to do. Yesterday was busy. In the morning, Tim did an [...]
15 Dec
Dutch oven
So yeah, Rotorua stinks. Literally. Rotorua is known for it’s geothermal activity, which means there is an excess of sulfur compounds that are released into the environment. It’s all quite scientific and of course everyone warns you about it, but Jesus Tapdancing Christ, it is absolutely rancid. I don’t think you can’t prepare yourself for it, you just [...]
14 Dec
You look delicious, as said by the chief
We flew this morning from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand. It was a short, three hour flight and the nice thing is that Air New Zealand has some kind of reciprocity with United, so we were able to sit in the equivalent of economy plus, which was nice. We grabbed our rental car and headed toward [...]
12 Dec
Brisbane
We arrived in Brisbane a couple days ago, after an uneventful flight from Sydney. We spent the afternoon roaming around town, getting a lay of the land. Brisbane is located on a river and it seems to be a fairly young city, which is really fun. It’s got a much better vibe than Sydney, in [...]
8 Dec
Day off
We took today off from being tourists. Since we landed in Sydney five days ago, we’ve been going, non stop. It was time we forced a bit of relaxation. Tell me we aren’t the only people who need a vacation from their vacation? Today though, it was nice to know that we had nothing on [...]
7 Dec
Reef day
As any diver knows, a day on the reef is absolutely exhausting. We’re no exception. It’s about 7:45 right now and I’m counting the minutes until dinner is done and we can go to sleep. Tim’s been in the shower for close to thirty minutes, I should go check on him actually. The GBR was nice. [...]
6 Dec
Adventure day
We were up early this morning, after a wild night of hanging out on our patio and drinking $3.99 wine. We had some aspirin (for the hangover) and coffee (for the hangover), we threw on some hats, hopped in our orange hatchback (we call it Pig) and off we went. Side note: if you ever [...]
