The Lundy 5

had a great day touring auckland, looking at the north beaches and volcanoes. (josh you would love this!) they built forts into the volcanoes that sit on the edge of the water and there are tunnels and guns and ammo rooms, just very cool. one of the beaches you'll see us on lava rocks that came from the pretty lake right after those pics. it used to be a volcano and is now just a crater lake. then we ate at murder burger, which was pretty neat, cute kitten logo and funny sayings all over inside, and very yummy! now we're saying goodbye to new zealand and heading to the airport where we'll fly to the cook islands tonight, but get there this morning! time space continuum thing. so we'll have another tuesday to experience in the cooks. we're hoping the weather doesn't follow us and it's warm and sunny. fingers crossed, thumbs held! not sure on internet access, so we'll see you on the flip side somewhere!

today was another day of rain, so we headed for the indoor activities we'd yet to do, kelly tarlton's antarctic adventure which was SO cool (pun intended, they have penguins!) and the auckland museum which was a great look at new zealand history. at kelly tarlton's, we got to see the stingray and penguin feedings. the stingrays were huge! and check out the pics, one was splashing me from the edge while smiling at me (at least it looked like it to me)! and we saw nemo and dory (yeah, the kids will like that one). and we walked beside, under, around sharks, turtles, stingray, and tons of fish in their very neat walk through aquarium. we rode a little snow trac through the penguin area, which is kept very close to the conditions of antarctica. a very fun place! then we went to the museum and saw lots, from maori history, to wartime, to volcanoes, and much in between. a neat exhibit was sitting in a living room of a typical auckland home, looking out the window and watc...

in case you're following along, here's where we are on our trip. we've covered a lot of ground (and air)! we're back in auckland, new zealand today and tomorrow, then off to the cook islands, to repeat tomorrow and spend 5 days. then back home to the kids (who we really miss)!

pics from lauren of our rafting trip. going over okere falls, i'm in the yellow helmet, and still smiling at this point! i smiled a lot bigger when we didn't flip at the bottom!!! :)

one place we visited today in rotorua was the lady knox geyser. then we saw the mud pools, which were very cool, well hot. boiling mud, so fun! :)

these are from lauren of allen's bungy jump!