mom and i are now on our way back up north and are currently in mt. cook village about to take a hike through the snow to see some beautiful views. milford sound is gorgeous and our flight over the southern alps was really magnificent! snow everywhere. milford sound is actually a fiord, which is an area that has been carved out by a glacier then filled in by the sea. we got to take a two hour boat cruise through the fiord, whose tall mountains that shot straight ...

hey everyone, mom and i just went skydiving today! mom did the 9,000 ft and loved it. we got video and pics to prove it too=) she did great for her first jump...and for being a senior citizen! hehee=) i did the 15,000 ft one and got over 60 sec of freefall time! it was so awesome! my instructor simon let me do my own spins on the freefall, control the parachute, and even let me help land! and the scenery was so beautiful! we went over lake wanaka and lake hawae w...

hey everyone! we picked up mom a few days ago, headed straight for Waitomo Caves to do black water rafting and to see the famous glow worms, or as the guides liked to call them, "cannablistic shagging maggots with shinny s***" =) it was great fun! then we went to Rotorua to check out a Maori cultural show and dinner, which was pretty entertaining. then the next day we went to Hell's Gate to see the geothermal boiling pools of sulfer and all kinds of other stuff! ...

hey everyone! i'm in new zealand now and i just love it. danny is staying with me for four more days and mom is coming tomorrow morning... actually she was supposed to be here today, but she missed her flight=( tisk tisk, mommy, you should know better than to try and fly without your ticket! hehe...love you mom. anyways. lets catch up. Frasier Island is the largest sand island in the world and even though it is made completely of sand, it has lots of life on it. ...

Danny and I are back safe from sailing. The Great Barrier Reef is amazing. The coral are the most beautiful I've seen! And I also saw sea turtles, white tipped reef sharks, and whales! They were humpback whales...the first whales I've ever seen! Really cool. more later... love