It has been almost 4 months since my best friend (Cheryl) boyfriend contacted me about getting her an engagement ring. It is common law that anyone wanting to marry Cheryl, April or I but consult the other two before making any decisions. So between planning that whole hoopla we decided to do a girly (and boys) weekend in Vegas. It had been way too long since the 3 of us saw each other, and the timing was right to celebrate their engagement. Well our simple lets get dressed up and "slightly intoxicated" weekend turned into so much more. Cheryl's sister was [View Full Entry]

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The semester/year has come to end and so came the difficulut task for packing my entire life in New Zeland back into two suitcases and a backpack (a very hard feat indeed!) only one break down when i really didnt think i would get everything home, but somehow i did and headed out. Nathan and I rented a 'camper van' for a few days to give us transport and a place to stay (given i got kicked out of Lincoln and we sold our car). now this was more of a mini-van with the back seats removed and replaced with a [View Full Entry]

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So the only thing I wanted to do was go walk on a glacier for my birthday, nothing too big right?! Well according to mother nature and karma it just wasen't in the cards this year. Nathan and I took off from Canterbury, bright-sunny-warm-perfect, and headed to the west coast, as soon as we started heading over Arthur's Pass and through the Southern Alps, the weather turned nasty. Big, black, gross looking clouds holding tons of water just waiting to drop their load on us. And drop it did, my the time we made it to the Rainforest Hostel i was [View Full Entry]

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Otay i know! i haven't written one of these in a real long time, and I'm not going to be writting right now either. but i havent died and im not sick i just am SUPER bussy with school (stupid school) and i dont have internet anymore at home and...well you get the point. But Nathan has way too much time on his hands and has been on top of things. So check his blog out http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Greeney/ and you can get an idea what i have been up to. i promise to write soon! [View Full Entry]

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August was such a nice month, only a week and half of school and the rest of the time was spent in a car touring around the south island with Mr. Nathan. We started our adventure at the north/west corner of the north island in a little area called the Tasman. I would say this is my favorite place…well… ever. Able Tasman national park starts at the coast and fills up almost that whole corner of the island. We decided to do a two-day hike, which consisted of being taxied (by boat) to Tonga bay and then hiking out. There are [View Full Entry]

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Well, amazing at it may sound, I am actually free to spend way too many hours sitting in Mrs. O’s (a coffee shop on campus that has free internet, and my only access to internet) updating this crazy travel blog nonsense. So lets see, it has been what…10 weeks since I last told you all about the New Zealand scene… to be completely honest, this semester has been a little less…crazy… then the last. I moved out of dorms and into a flat on campus with 3 other people, older people, so our time is now spent cooking dinner, watching mindless [View Full Entry]

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Nathan and I went on a great weekend trip up through Arthur's Pass and then to the West coast and North to the Pancake Rocks. It was so beautiful! Now i know i hate the cold but there is something beautiful about a snow caped mountain in the background. The problem is when there is snow on the ground that things get a little...cold if you will. The hike we did through Arthur's Pass was a very nice not to hard 2 hr tramp. But Arthur's Pass is at a very high elevation...meaning snow on the ground. But i did not [View Full Entry]

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WE WON!!! Thats all you really need to know. It was a great game, we totally kicked ass, and it was real fun watching Nathan trying to fallow the game...little bit different from the video game. [View Full Entry]

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So I was real excited to show my mom Kaikoura, my favorite town in NZ so far. But as we arrived into town the rain fallowed up…I swear just my luck. Mom was a good sport, she even walked out onto the cliffs to try and see some seals…too bad they were playing hide and seek. It was funny to see my mom trying to hide from the rain. So we headed back to good ol Lincoln to plan the next few days. Christchurch was our next destination. We got a nice little place called Camelot hotel right on the square. [View Full Entry]

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I have to give my mom major props, she left the beautiful California summer to the dismal New Zealand winter just to see me! I love my mommy. Like all great trips she was delayed, almost 6 hours due to engine failure in LA…thank Buddha they found that b4 they got in the air!! But with the beautiful technology my dad and I stayed in touch so I wasn’t at the airport for a million hours. It was really funny trying to get her to stay awake past 6:30pm, granted it was like almost 12am her time so I guess [View Full Entry]

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