Home!

Well, its been a long trip, but we're finally home! I went to school today and it was so good to see my friends. Unfortunately, I have a ton of makeup work to do in language arts - 3 weeks worth! Oh well. Its good to be home!

Soo close, but soo far :(

The deal is, we got on the plane in Auckland, flew over the pacific for 12 hours, arrived in LAX at 6:30am, and had to wait 10 hours for our flight to Seattle. Everyone was a little tired (it's hard to sleep in a tiny chair!) so we decided to go to a motel for the day to catch up on sleep. I just woke up, it's 2:00pm, so I got around 5 hours of sleep. It was amazing flying in to the airport, we had been flying over blackness for so long, the lights just started, and there was a ton of lights! It was pretty cool, the city looked like it was a bowl of beads, and the roads looked like they were little glowing rivers! In 24 hours I'll see you guys, earlier actually.

PS: i forgot to add hokey pokey ice cream to my list of things I'm going to miss, it's like vanilla ice cream with streaks of caramel.

last full day :(

I can't believe it's the last night, and that I'm going to see all you guys at school on Wednesday! I've made a list of 5 things I'm going to miss;
1= meat pies
2= L&P/lemon & paeroa(soda a bit like sprite)
3= bundabergs ginger beer(the best! and not really 'beer')
4= candy(licorice all sorts, pineapple lumps, peanut slabs, tim-tams, cherry ripes...)
5= australia & new zealand!
and, 3 things I won't miss;
1= being away from you guys
2= mosquitoes
3= other bugs:p
We are currently just out of Auckland and staying with my dads friends mom, Ms. Toussaint. She is really nice, and has a really lovely house, but the thing I find odd, is that I think the walls are all nearly the same shade of yellow! Mabe its just me, but I find variation in color nice. Tommorrow we fly out of New Zealand. See you soon!

I'm comin home...soon...

Well, the trips not over yet, but it will be soon! I can't believe I will be home in a couple days, it's unbelievable! We made it to Rotaroua, spent the night in a hotel, and spent the day exploring the Agrodome(we saw an awesome sheep show!), and then went to a zoo and saw a kiwi!! It was sweet as!(a new Zealand saying, definition; sweet as the coolest thing you can think of). The next day, yesterday, we left Rotaroua and drove 15 minutes to another of my dads friends houses, where we watched TV, had a lovely dinner, watched more TV, stayed up till 2012, and went to bed. Today we are relaxing. See you soon, and happy new years!! :)

5 days to go

Only 5 days left, yikes. I'm definitely going to miss NZ. I cant wait to see all of you! My first hangi was cool, I got to watch them take it out of the ground! The food was in little containers, in a metal cage on top of really hot stones, and covered with a few layers of burlap, then the dirt. The food was pretty good, but I wasn't feeling so good, so I just laid around in our room. We left the day after the hangi, and went to a hotel with my nanna and uncle Pete. we slept there and visited Toni and Sharron the next day at their beach house. We had a ton of fun, but I brushed againsted a bush and ended up with a spider on my hand, and now i'm terrified of spiders again :( oh well. Right now we are going to Rotoroua, i'm doing schoolwork and dealing with a slight bit of carsickness. See you soon!

merry Christmas!

Its the day after Christmas, and I had a good Christmas! I got a boomerang I can paint, a glass Maori symbol, 20$, 50$, a huge lollypop, a lego set, a koala magnet, and I think thats it! Yesterday we hung out until around 10 o'clock, then we went to the beach for a couple of hours. After we arived back at the house, we played on the ipad and basically did nothing. For dinner we got all dressed up and went to the hotel down the road and had dinner in the Bryers room! It turns out one of my old relatives owned the house that was on the hotel property, so they named a room after the origial owner! Dinner was lovely, it was a fancy buffet. We had a good time. Today we are going to have a hangi, where you cook the food in a huge pit for around 6 hours. It sound pretty cool. Hope you all have a lovely Christmas! Only about a week left, see you soon!

Christmas eve!!!

I can't believe its Chrismas eve! Sorry I haven't posted in awhile, we've left Waiheke and drove a couple of hours to my dads friends house. The guy, Brad, has 3 girls, ages 5, 4, and 3. Unfortunately, Brads wife died unexpectedly about a year ago. We spent the night with them and hung out with the kids, who we're very enthusiastic about playing that we were criminals and they were going to lock us away forever! Ouch. We left the next morning and drove another couple of hours to the hokianga habour, and the little town of Opononi, where the Bryers family is local. We went out to dinner the first night and found a relation at the bar! It was strange. And today, we went over to some sand dunes and played around, and the boat driver asked my nana who we were and she said 'I'm Rose Bryers' and the guy was like 'oh! You're a Bryers!'. Also, we went to a local museum and there were lots of photos of my great grand parents and people like that. My cousin Michael keeps saying 'you guys are famous!' and I keep insisting 'our family is just local!'. Somehow, Christmas snuck up on me and now Im going 'what!? It's Christmas eve!?' Tomorrow we are going to have Christmas dinner in the Bryers room at the fancy hotel! Merry Christmas everyone!