There was a lot more skateboarding in November. Maki needed all the physical and any sort of social interactions he could get. He only had one friend Matai by then but Matai was in school and had after-school activities so we didn’t really see him enough. We also got invited by Olivia to a fabulous … More Life in ChCh is getting better and better with each day…
Our new Kiwi family, Jan and Vicki (thanks to my Seattle Kiwi friend Kim), came to visit us from Auckland. We spent a few days in town and then took a daytime trip over to Akaroa, about an hour away from Christchurch. Before Covid, Akaroa was often overrun by tourists from cruise ships but we … More Visitors from Auckland
In June, when we thought we were going to leave NZ as soon as we returned back from the South Island tour, our landlords put our Airbnb back on the market and someone reserved it for a girls’ weekend for the end of October. Then, when we changed our minds about leaving NZ, we had … More A week in Wanaka in October
Making friends isn’t easy. We have been lonely for a while. Pepi is the only one that had some social life through Ultimate. We are bugging our next-door neighbors all the time and they have become sort of like our extended family. They are our go-to’s for everything we need. They helped supply our Airbnb … More We are looking for friends…
We went up to Auckland to get Petra and Maksim’s passports renewed. We debated if it was a good decision to make more of this trip than just a passport run since we didn’t know how long the pandemic was going to last and when we would be able to return home and find new … More August 2020 in Northland, New Zealand
After almost 5 months on the South Island of New Zealand, we are back at the airport, waiting to board a flight to Auckland for a week long trip.I’m feeling so nostalgic about being back at the airport, on the move again. We’ve had an amazing year of travel, a real around-the-world journey, a true … More On The Move Again
As we made the last-minute decision not to travel to Europe as soon as the first flights were available, we needed to regroup and see how we would stay in NZ a bit longer. Our visitor visas got automatically extended until mid-September, and our thoughts were that we would at least remain there through July … More Winter in Christchurch and Mt. Hutt
June 3, 2020 – Jun 20, 2020 As we got out of the lockdown back in May of 2020, we were thinking that we wouldn’t be in New Zealand for much longer. It looked like that the covid crisis was not going to end any time soon and we immediately shifted to “savings mode”. Our … More South Island Tour in a Campervan, New Zealand
One more accomplishment for our teenager. She did bungy jumping from the original bungy jumping location, the “World Home of Bungy”, here in New Zealand where it all started back in 1988.The bridge is 141ft high. She was braver and more adventurous than either of her parents.
A couple of months ago, the world stopped and so did our travel. We left Australia and entered New Zealand days before covid19 restrictions started. We were originally scheduled to be here for 3.5 weeks but almost 3 months later, we are still in New Zealand, appreciative of every moment we got to spend in … More Christchurch Murals, New Zealand
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