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December 20th 2008

Published: December 20th 2008

Our days are winding down quickly in New Zealand. We drove the long drive from Wellington to Rotorua. It is kind ofdifficult to pronounce the town names because a lot of them are Maori words and we never heard of the words before. Needless to say we butchered a lot of the town names. Rotorua is basically known for smelling like rotten eggs. Kidding, they have a lot of thermal pools and they smell ... Read Full Entry

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DASH dave and ash

David and I are officially "retired" and have decided to travel the world for a while. We are starting out in Thailand on Aug 16th, will be meeting up with a few of his friends there and his cousin lives in the north of the country. Then we are going to travel down into Malaysia and Singapore. Where another friend and his girlfriend will be meeting up with us for a few weeks. Then we are scheduled to jump over to Bali, which is the only place in the entire world that I must see. Enjoy that island for 10 days and fly over to Australia. We have 5 weeks to travel down the East coast of A... full info

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she was my favorite

the 3rd longest Maori word!

a trip back to the geysers

where Dave is sitting got VERY VERY hot from the thermal pools

a pic with my favorite performer!!

affection

more sheep! i really like them

this is Hot Water Beach, you dig your own hole and the water is HOTTTT

it was comical watching people dig their bath tubs i guess you could call it

going to Catherdral Cove, where there is limestone rocks

this is sliver fern. the fern that is on their rugby jerseys and also all over the country. there is a tale we were told about how the Maori people would lay it down as they walked into battle and could find their way home becuase it was so bright

the limestone cave

20th December 2008

Court
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So cool!
Dude, this is all the stuff I have taught about!!!! i should have packed my 200 kids in your luggage... awesome!

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