It would be a wild understatement to say that we were a little upset when we left New Zealand - Martha sobbed all the way to the airport. This was in large part because we spent our last few days in Auckland with Ryan, who was the first friend we made in NZ, making for a very difficult goodbye. In another case of firsts and lasts, we spent our last day on the same beach in Devonport that we'd discovered on our first day two months before. It was a long enough tr...

So this post is slightly late as it turns out people aren't lying when they say Internet access in New Zealand is bad. Sofia literally had more Internet in a tiny village in Laos. We arrived in Auckland on Saturday night and spent the next three nights there recovering from our jet lag and exploring the city. Despite being New Zealand's biggest city, it's made up of numerous small suburbs, each with a characteristic of their own. On our first day we visited Devo...