new zealand part 6

we are home... we are actually in bellevue right now. i fly back to spokane tomorrow, and megan on saturday. i go back to work on friday, and megan begins studying for the nclex. stepping off the plane in seattle was just as shocking as fiji. in fiji the sweat starts dripping from your nose within minutes, and in seattle you are shivering within minutes :) here are a few pictures from the trip. there are many more from ryan that we are going to rely on with a few of ours thrown in... we will probably make a link an album within the next couple of weeks. cheers


after the wedding adam joined us for a little road trip to the north point of the south island. we camped, it rained, we got wet. it was sweet as cramming all of us and our luggage into the station wagon... here's a picture of the guys.


here is ryan doing his thing.


this was the most frightening part of the trip... sadly we dropped adam off after two days back in nelson so that he could make his return flight to auckland... (good times adam, good times) the rest of us headed down the west coast and then cut across to wanaka and queenstown then shot up the middle through christchurch. in queenstown ryan and i went bungy jumping... pics and video pending...


we had a real fiji experience when we went in to the town in nadi... this guy found us outside the grocery and told us that we needed to go and experience real fiji... "go down the road turn left, go straight and turn right, and there you will find real fiji experience..." so we found a food market and then headed to the bus when this guy shows up again... he says no you must come this way... he leads us down a couple of streets to this ally while talking to us about his shop and how its authentic fiji etc. megan and i begin to have second thoughts but this guy insisted... on the balcony there were three locals there to greet us, waving us up to their shop. it was very very sketch, but turned out alright. we had traditional drink called "kava" (blessing/chant/clapping and the whole bit), we chatted and bartered, and then hurried to our bus... the bus is a whole other story. there are many more stories we could share, too many stories to blog about, (im no steve allen), you will just have to ask about them in person or skype :)


this is at the hostel/resort that we stayed at in fiji... we all got a little burned in different places, continuous sweating was unavoidable...


the shitty weather (apparently this word is better received then 'crap' in kiwi land) on the west coast in NZ put a damper on our hopes for some sweet as sunsets... we lucked out on the last night of our holiday... this photo is mint!

oh, the guy in fji told us to make sure an tell all our friends and family that it is safe to visit fiji again... "there are no more cannibals... come have holiday here in beautiful fiji... peace, joy, love, harmony..." so there ya go.