"Make sure you blog about your travels to New Zealand!"
Alright all you requesting this, and all of you wanting to stalk us in a socially acceptable way (hehe just kidding....) here is my blog. But I am writing this on one condition. I don't want to hear any complaints on my spelling or grammar ;) Was that asking for it?
If I am going to write about my life's adventures I am going to start with this:
Because this represents a very positive change in my life, and really the beginning of my adventures. Anything before this was just prep work to really allow God into my life, and the positive forces that come with that :)
For those who weren't able to be with us on our wedding day, it was simply perfect. It was magical, it was happy, it was beautiful, it was just perfect :) I hear it was rather cold...but I didn't really notice! (hehe)
Now on to our travels :)
Here is my Mr. Handsome, ehem, I mean Mr. Husband (Sorry you are going to have to excuse me, I have Newly Wed Syndrome. I've been told it wears off by time, and the best way to handle it is to enjoy it until then ;) packing for our trip:
This is really where our adventures for this trip started. We, with all our stuff, were sprawled out in my parent's pool table room minding our own business when the roof decided to rain on us. So much for trying to be organised packers as we then proceeded to shovel all our crap away from the water and into a big messy pile. Remember the scene in the movie The Sword in the Stone when the roof leaks? And they have to use pots and tea kettles and such to prevent an indoor flood? Yeah, sympathy.
But we still made it to the airport:
What a cutie :)
That is actually the only photo I got of our flight....I was simply too excited (admittedly like a little kid) to take pictures. (But airport photos are boring anyway and you could find a better photo of a plane like the one we flew on online... If you are really that disappointed and desperate.)
We flew Air NZ, and happened to be on an older plane model. Apparently our flight was absolutely horrible. But I have nothing really to compare it to. All I can tell ya is there was turbulence the whole way and we weren't allowed to get up a majority of the journey. But I made it through that, so the next flight should be a piece of cake. Especially if I'm allowed to get up and pee.
But we made it! And guess what? It was raining! I felt like I was back in Seattle :) Green and rain, plus it was dark because it was so early in the morning.....but that didn't last long! I think it was just NZ's way of making me feel at home :) Since then it has been lots of sunny warm weather! Love that!
It took a while, but after the jet lag wore off I took some photos of Nathan's home town. Here is one we fixed up to look like a post card for ya :)
This photo was taken in the evening, I just realised it doesn't show off how beautiful the weather is here. But this is his little beach town.
Nathan's family lives farther into the country and it reminds me of being in Idaho. Cornfields, flies, sunshine, and cows (plus sheep!). So again, between the sights and smells, very familiar. Then you drive a few minutes and see green trees like home....then some like you'd find in Oregon....and then palm trees come out of no where, and suddenly the familiar feels more like a dream. I love it here!
Well, that's it for today.
First blog post. Check!
More words and pictures coming soon!
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