We have really been lucky on this trip in regards to weather. We’ve been able to do everything we have wanted to do. The weather took a turn today. We woke up to it absolutely bucketing down rain. We are enduring a polar storm that has come up from Antarctica. It is very, very cold. […]

Hello readers! Today we allowed ourselves to sleep in a little bit to top off a nice night of relaxing that we had last night. We packed our gear into the car and hit the road to our next destination; the biggest city on the South Island, Christchurch. We had a short stop for breakfast […]

Hello everyone. It was an early morning wake up this morning because the mighty Eagles were playing at 6am. It was a great start to the morning with another victory. We toasted up some bagels and had cream cheese and strawberry jam on them (which we discovered in Wanaka) which were delicious with a cup […]

The day started off just like it did yesterday with a quick visit to the hotel restaurant for a breakfast platter which was yet again very nice and convenient. We then returned to the room and packed our stuff up to hit the road (but not before grabbing a coffee). Dunedin was certainly a strange […]

Hello readers, We woke up at a reasonable hour this morning and went down to the hotel restaurant for our included breakfast. This is the first included breakfast we have had on the trip and we are starting to think that it is the way to do it. The breakfast was a choice of two […]

We were up before the sun this morning as today marked the first day of the road trip portion of our honeymoon and we wanted to get on the road to Dunedin early. We checked out of the hotel and headed to Fergbaker to grab breakfast and something for lunch later as we knew we […]

Hello readers, Today was our final day in Queenstown after being here for the past week or so. It has been a nice time in QT. You wouldn’t think so if you haven’t been here but Queenstown isn’t actually a city. It is really quite small. It has a population of like 15,000 people. It […]

Hello everyone and welcome to a special edition of our blog. If you haven’t guessed by the title – today is our wedding day. The reason we decided to go to NZ in the first place is because we knew we wanted to get married here. We crafted the rest of the trip around this […]

We started today off with an early wake up to watch the mighty Philadelphia Eagles get a great victory. A nice way to start the day. After that we packed our stuff up and moved to an upgraded room that we paid for, for the next two nights that has a hot tub and a […]