After spending 9 months living in and traveling all over the beautiful island of New Zealand we want to share our top ten must see New Zealand locations. #1. KAREKARE WATERFALL & BEACH This beautiful beach and waterfall are located on Auckland's west coast and just a short 50 min drive from downtown Auckland. This [...]
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Boat Ride on Mercury Bay
I'm on a Boat Riding a boat in New Zealand is something we all knew we wanted to do before we had even arrived in the country. We had seen tons of photos and videos of whales and dolphin's showing off in the sea and people in awe of the beauty. So when we booked [...]
The Day We Tried To Be Sheep
Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill This adventure would give us our first very first encounter with New Zealand sheep and it inspired us so much we decided we wanted to try and be sheep ourselves by climbing up one of the steep green hills up to the memorial rather then take the paved path. More [...]
Keeping our Fall Tradition Alive Overseas
One of our favorite things to do in Oklahoma in October was go to pumpkin patches/farms. We enjoyed it so much we actually had Gabriela's first birthday party at a pumpkin patch and it was so fun! It was really a big tradition for our family to do this every year and we wanted to [...]
Let’s go to the Mall, Today!!!
Channeling my inner Robin Sparkles (If you haven't watched How I Met Your Mother you need to asap Sean and I are Marshall and Lily in a lot of ways) or my teenager years here. I have to be honest as an adult I am not a huge fan of the Mall. I would much [...]
Manukau heads Lighthouse
Our first big adventure in Strawberry (our new/used car)!! We had explored quite a bit of Auckland on foot but having a car meant we could now explore even further. For our first big road/day trip we chose to go to Manukau Heads Lighthouse (pronounced Ma-nu-cow) located atop Awhitu Peninsula . It was only a [...]
Riding the Ferry in Auckland
Devonport here we come! If there is one thing I can say about our adventures in Auckland it's this - The most amazing ones always happened when we didn't have a set in stone plan. On this day we took the bus to the central business district (CBD) with just one goal in mind - [...]