Six hours down and only four to go...

Auckland airport has a steady traffic of travellers, with no good food! It's a gorgeous sunny day outside but we are in winter clothes, prepared for our chilly return... So while we are waiting, here was our ....

"New Zealand To Do List"

See Anna - check
Dinner in the sky tower - check
Pick up a hitchhiker - check
Walk on a glacier - check
Find a kiwi - check
Spot some penguins - check
Climb every mountain .... Check!!
(ok just a few!)
Walk on a volcano - check
Rafting - check
Shotover Jetboat - check
Spotting Dolphins and Whales - half check :-(
Fly in a helicopter - check
Don't crash Lucy!! - check
View the boulders? - check
Visit Milford Sound - check
Find a train!
Tranz-Alpine - check
Spot an All Black - check! (two actually)
Swim in the sea - check (Tasman and Pacific)
Kayaked with a seal - check
Spot the glow worms - check

Viewing Mount Cook - Fail
Skydiving - fail

And here are some extra things we did...

Stayed in a top 10 holiday park
Pukeko spotting - check
Identify the wildlife - check
Survived the aftershock!
Survived the flood in Rotorua
Mud bath
Hot springs
Survived two cyclones!
Drove over a mountain
Drove under a mountain!
Gondola up a mountain!
Luged down a mountain

We have covered two islands, stayed in 16 places, visited countless places, driven over 3,500 miles! (all below 100km/hr!), travelled by plane, helicopter, jet boat, ferry, black water raft, white water raft, catamaran, mariner boat, train, bus, gondola and luge. We have abseiled, climbed, walked, kayaked, slid, swam, paddled, soaked... in pools and in rain and slept.

The end xx