We awoke to our first full day in New Zealand feeling well rested and excited to get out into the city! After one cup of tea and one cup of coffee enjoyed on the deck, I was ready to GOOOO!! We opted to walk, not because Bobby was terrified of getting into the car with me again, but because we agreed we'd like to stretch our legs after the long flights of yesterday ;) But seriously, walking IS the best way to see a place and to get your bearings. In the words of ...

Just thinking about 24+ hours of travel from Flagstaff, AZ to Auckland, NZ is enough to make anyone's bum hurt, just imagine how we felt having actually experienced it! The flights weren't all that bad really, and we DID sleep about 4 hours on the long one from LAX to FIJI. The food on Fiji Airways was pretty bad, so we were glad we packed some snacks of our own. Bobby really wanted me to take a picture of the whitish colored sausage (?) we received as part of ou...