Welcome back to the blog!
It seems like forever since we last blogged.
To catch you all up on what you missed while we were off the grid, we had a wonderful time being back home for the holidays.
It was so nice to see so many of you and to catch up on all the things going on at home.
We also got the chance to visit a bunch of places (
Pennsylvania,
Boston, and
Virginia) and see friends and family.
All in all, it was a great way to spend our short time home!
Now that we’re back on the road again, we’re ready to start blogging! We hope that our South Pacific installment will keep you all entertained during those long hours at work and snow days at home. We can’t promise the same consistency as South America (we are actually going to be working here), but we’ll be sure to share all of our travel adventures along the way. Sit back, relax, and enjoy!
After 42 hours in transit to get here (including a 10 hour layover in LA and a 3 hour layover in Fiji), we finally made it to Auckland, exhausted but excited. We were greeted by great weather, each of the past two days have been in the mid 70’s and beautiful, if not a little cloudy at times. Yesterday, we spent the day getting over the jet lag and took a scenic walk around the area of Devonport, just a 12 minute ferry ride from the central city. The walk was great, including some nice views and an awesome buffet lunch we got at a place right on the beach…fantastic! We wished for some more sunshine, but the clouds seemed to prevail for most of the day. All for the best probably, since getting a sunburn in New Zealand is serious business and can happen in only 10 minutes! We took some photos of the city along our route; despite the clouds the city still looked nice.
Today we attended the orientation for our work abroad program in the morning. We won’t bore you with the tedious details, but we can now safely say that we are the proud owners of a second hand mobile phone (quite possibly one of the first ever made by nokia) and a New Zealand bank account (that makes 7.75% interest…take that ING!).
After the long morning, we decided to take a nice walk through some of the city parks since the weather was beautiful. Albert Park was our first stop where we saw fantastic flowers and a beautiful fountain. We continued on to Auckland Domain where the Auckland Museum is located and we stumbled upon a “Winter Garden” that has some of the most amazing flowers. We managed to get in only 20 minutes before they closed but it was well worth it. The flowers were gorgeous! After the garden, we wandered around and found a perfect spot to toss the disc around. We’re trying to get back in the swing since we’re going to attempt to find a pick-up game on Sunday. Gotta impress the locals right? Hopefully we’ll have more to report on the ultimate scene after Sunday.
That’s about it for our first couple of days. We hope that you are all doing well back at home and surviving the frigid winter (we don’t miss that one bit!). We’ll write more soon…enjoy!
Welcome back to the blog! It seems like forever since we last blogged. To catch you all up on what you missed while we were off the grid, we had a wonderful time being back home for the holidays. It was so nice to see so many of you and to catch up on all the things going on at home. We also got the chance to visit a bunch of places (
Now that we’re back on the road again, we’re ready to start blogging! We hope that our South Pacific installment will keep you all entertained during those long hours at work and snow days at home. We can’t promise the same consistency as 
After 42 hours in transit to get here (including a 10 hour layover in LA and a 3 hour layover in 
Today we attended the orientation for our work abroad program in the morning. We won’t bore you with the tedious details, but we can now safely say that we are the proud owners of a second hand mobile phone (quite possibly one of the first ever made by nokia) and a 
After the long morning, we decided to take a nice walk through some of the city parks since the weather was beautiful. Albert Park was our first stop where we saw fantastic flowers and a beautiful fountain. We continued on to Auckland Domain where the 
That’s about it for our first couple of days. We hope that you are all doing well back at home and surviving the frigid winter (we don’t miss that one bit!). We’ll write more soon…enjoy!
3 comments:
a year without winter? why not "donde estan los blokes?" Are the guitar hero buttons backwards down there?!?! glad to see the blog's back to help me avoid work.
Hooray for the return of Donde Esta los Blancos! If you're going to change the name, shouldn't you be culturally sensitive and change it to something in the official language of New Zealand, Elvish?
Hahaha! I'm a dork.
It looks beautiful down there! Did you try the thing with the toilet flushing in the opposite direction?
We're talking suggestions for the new title and maybe we'll even post a poll so you can vote for your favorite.
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