Home in the snow - with pictures of paradise past

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Hi everyone:

Well, we have managed to touch down in our beautiful snow-covered city a few days ago. Just prior to that we had a wonderful few days rest (after a tough 3 weeks) on the beaches of Fiji. It really is a paradise, with absolutely perfect weather, royal blue very warm oceans, the friendliest of people and altogether an enchanting place. We did however have an interesting day enroute to Fiji. While I won't bore you with the details, suffice it to say we got in about 12 hours later than expected due to a screwup by the airlines, and so in return I got Air Pacific to fly us home first class to LA which sort of made up for it in a way.

Since I couldn't download some of the pictures I wanted to include enroute, in due to very slow computers in faraway places, I thought I would include a few now for your enjoyment. Thanks everyone for "coming" with us on our travels. It was great fun hearing from you along the way!

Love

The travelling H-W's

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Photos

Punting
A squared off gondola which was steered by an oarsman like a gondola, on the beautiful Avon River in Christchurch, New Zealand

Gorgeous rose garden
In Botannical gardens in Christchurch, this rose garden had over 300 kinds of roses - really beautiful, beautiful!

Fiji-cocktail hour
With four of our new "tour mates"