We are currently in Masterton, NZ at Maria's parent's farm. We went to Napier the other day for a night and checked out a wine vineyard but didn't do the tour because we had missed the early one and there wasn't another one for a while. Cam went swimming in the ocean, while Rob, Maria, and I stood on the beach bundled up in our jackets and sweaters.
We arrived in Masterton yesterday and got to feed 2 lambs that lost their mothers. Maria's parents have 5000-6000 sheep and about 1000 acres of land. It's beautiful here. Jim, Maria's dad told us we would wake up to the birds, however, I don't think he thought we'd wake up to a bird smacking into the window for 3 hours. We thought the bird was trying to get in so we closed the shades but it continued to smash it's body into the window... so weird. We hope he gave himself a big enough headache to not do it tomorrow morning. ;)
We drove to Ngawi and Lake Ferry today to see the Seal colonies (the babies were sooooo cute). We stayed in Lake Ferry for Fish and Chips and returned home in time for tea and biscuits :)
New Zealand is absolutely beautiful. There are so many sheep and the land is so green. A few things we've noticed:
-we don't have to tip at restaurants
-we have to drive on the other side of the road (we haven't had to do it ourselves YET)
-the people are awesome
-our verbiage is different... i.e toilet=bathroom, entree=appetizer, bill=check
-our dollar is stronger which is GREAT
Not sure what we're doing tomorrow but we'll be in Wellington on Friday (Thursday for you guys) then off to the South Island on Saturday (Friday for you).
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