Update from new zealand

Gillie at San Francisco Airport

From Gillie--we made it!!!  it was a long travel but now we r here in this warm weather!!  i love it here but i miss my class

Hi from Tracy too!   The 13 hours on the plane from San Francisco to Auckland, NZ was hard but OK.  Full flight so we were not able to stretch out...but at least we each had our own little TV screen and Gillie could watch movies and play games.  Got some sleep but was glad to have a place to stretch out last night.
We got to Tauranga at 9:30 Friday morning--would have been 2:30pm in the afternoon on Thursday in WI.  We had left 10:40am from Green Bay on Wednesday...so about 28 hours of travel!

Anyhow, enjoy these pictures!   We are renting a campervan (like an RV) on Monday so will maybe not be able to blog too much till we are back in the city.  We will be traveling around the North island a lot for about 12 days.

This is "the Mount"...a famous huge hill in Tauranga.  We will go walk to the top of this mountain!  It is only about 4 miles from our house in Tauranga...and see that water!? 

We can walk to the beach from our house :o)

Flight from Auckland to Tauranga

Miss you all!  Please email us!!  From, Tracy and Gillie

preparing for my trip

today we packed alot of our clothes and got ready for our trip