Well, we are back from New Zealand.
If you didn't know, we were there from January 10-28th. It was a bus tour around both the North and South islands (that's what NZ is made of) and not so much like what I expected. Your tax dollars flew us there and I am not ungrateful.
It's just that New Zealand isn't there.
It has been replaced with 30 million acres of American pine trees, Indian shrubs, blue-grass pastures, English gardens and Chinese herbs.
Sorry, but someone also thought it a good idea to bring rabbits to hunt for fun, stoats (like weasels) and foxes to kill the extra rabbits, traps and poison to kill the stoats and foxes before they kill all the kiwis who thought they had no reason to be able to fly and the bird song you wake up to is English house sparrows.
The bus tour would give us 2 hours at a vineyard but 10 minutes at a rainforest. An hour at a MALL, 2 hours at a castle, but no whale-watching. By day 3, I was looking for a way out of the contract; by day 12, I was resigned to the life-style.
Our fellow captives were all so nice. The food was really good and if we had been left to our own schedule, we'd still be about a mile from the airport, staring.
Enough. Just look at the 186 photos and enjoy.
Oh, in Queenstown, Tom and Thomas went on the Shotover River jet boat ride. Proof is here:
http://www.shotoverjet.com/?estory_id=197919I went looking for wool. Found a nice possum blend.
