The Big Easy

Winter Wonderland

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June 27th 2008
NZ Day 6 Is that Jungle bells I hear? No silly it’s the middle of June. Those are the chains rattling on the bus wheels that is taking you to the ski slopes. Today we woke up really early checked out of our room made some sandwiches for lunch and put on our rented snow pants and picked up our skis and boots from the storage locker out front. The shuttle bus picked us up a ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more