Well...entries may be a little behind since our beloved laptop has died, so we are going to do our best getting photos and such on the site. On Saturday June 2, we went to a world rugby test match between the All Blacks and France. It is not very often that the All Blacks play in Auckland, so it was very exciting. We went with Steph and Carl, and we made sure we all had jerseys, jackets, hats, flags etc to go cheer our team on. The game was at Eden Park which seats about 45 000 people. By the [View Full Entry]

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We found out on May 14th, that on Mother's Day, in Banff, back in Canada...Greg propsed to Amanda! It was the most exciting news could have got! We were so excited, and were really wishing we could be there to celebrate. So we did a little celebrating of our own on their behalf. The wedding is going to be in July '08 someplace tropical! Congratulations Amanda & Greg! Can't wait to get home to celebrate and start planning!!! [View Full Entry]

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Jess got back from her Kiwi-Experience Tour ready for some much-needed rest, which was good because Dennis and I still had a few days left of work before a week off to hang out with her. We have all been out of town quite a bit lately, so for our week off we just stayed in Auckland and did things in and around town that Jess hasn't seen yet. In Auckland we went to the zoo, aquarium and museum. All very fun and it gave us a chance to do things we might not normally get around to doing, so [View Full Entry]

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Busy April-May Australasia » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland By Kickinitkiwi April 10th 2007 Melissa & Dennis A few days after Easter weekend, Jess left us for 3 1/2 weeks to go on her "Kiwi-Expereince" Tour...but that's [View Full Entry]

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EASTER Australasia » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Islands By Kickinitkiwi April 8th 2007 Melissa & Dennis Haha, Ok to say we have been busy and are waaay behind in our blogging is an understatement, so here are th [View Full Entry]

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We were up EARLY the next morning because we needed to go meet our "Sand Safari" Bus that was going to be taking us on our tour for the day. First stop after boarding the bus was at the Giant Kauri Kingdom. Kauri trees are some of the oldes in the world. They make some of the Redwood Forests look very very young. Some of the trees that they are uncovering are around 45, 000 years old. A lot of the oldest Kauri forests need to be uncovered because the are so old that they are far below the surface [View Full Entry]

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Easter Weekend=4 days off work, what better time to head north to the Bay of Islands??? We left on Friday morning, only to find that the entire city of Auckland was also heading out of town. So, the "roadtrip" took hours longer than it was supposed to, but we weren't in any hurry and had a good time anyways. We got to Paihia, which was about an hour or so before where we were staying so we stopped and checked out the shops, the beaches and had a drink at the bar on the end of the pier. It's a [View Full Entry]

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Ok, so on with our BUSY day in Rotorua...after the thermal park and some lunch we went to the Agrodome. They do all kinds of sheep demonstrations and have some cool "kiwi" activities as well. We thought the sheep show would be a good intro to NZ for Jess, since there are about 6 sheep for every person in this country. ;) They had about thirteen different breeds of sheep that they brought on to the stage to show us, as well as a shearing demonstration, a "duck herding" dog, baby lambs and the sheep dogs. The guy doing the [View Full Entry]

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Ok, so our day was going to finish off with a Maori dinner and cultural night. However we had a couple hours before that was supposed to start, so we decided to take Jess up to Skyline Skyrides since the two of us had so much fun last time we went there. And once, again it was so much fun. We got a chance to do about five trips down, which gave us a chance to try the three differant tracks. So much fun. After our gondola ride back down to the car, we got changed and headed to the [View Full Entry]

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Weekend in Rotorua- Wai-O-Tapu Australasia » New Zealand » North Island » Bay of Plenty » Rotorua By Kickinitkiwi March 31st 2007[url='/Bloggers/Kickinitkiwi/ [View Full Entry]

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