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We arrived back from our Doubtful Sound journey to quite possibly the NICEST farmstead we could have imagined. Try to picture an interior designer/farmer who added a 2 bedroom chalet onto her garage, decorated it beautifully, and provided fresh baked bread and brownies and cookies (daily). Not to mention a fully stocked fridge and farmContinue reading “Te Anau – Best Farmstay EVER”

WOW. Where to begin? This post will mostly be pictures since these last 48 hours was one of those ‘bucket list’ type things people do for the photo opps. Before you scroll, go on google maps and check out where Doubtful Sound is…it is in one of the MOST remote places on earth. Untouched, veryContinue reading “Overnight Boat in Doubtful Sound”

This place is the best. Truly. I woke up at 6:15am to go for a run – mostly for some alone time..but also because I finally saw the sun! The kids slept in beautifully (we’ve started a tradition of them going to bed together at 10pm and then they sleep in till 7:30 which hasContinue reading “Beautiful Wanaka”

Leo’s Blog: Breaking news….Flood in Wanaka! Today was our first day in Wanaka. Once we got on the road, it was a 2.5 hour drive to Wanaka. Before we checked into our apartment, we went to Puzzling World. Puzzling world is a place with optical illusions and lots of mazes (and puzzles obviously). To startContinue reading “First day in Wanaka”

So it appears we got very unlucky with 100% chance of rain hitting almost every place we are going in the next week. And because we have our kids with us – the whole – sit in a pub and drink your sorrows away doesn’t really fly. We spent the morning in a theatre watchingContinue reading “A 2 week storm hits the west coast of NZ…for our entire trip”

I woke up this morning to this: I got up at 5:45am because I found out that my last surviving grandparent died yesterday. I knew that if someone was sick or dying (someone not directly in my immediate family) I would not to be told because that’s the way my family rolls…but since I workContinue reading “From Akaroa to Mt. Cook”

So as much as I love the intimacy in staying in a bed and breakfast farm…and it’s certainly beautiful and away from the touristy vibe of the town…staying with an older couple who are more of the ‘children should be seen not heard’ variety..makes it tough when you have 2 kids who are jet laggedContinue reading “2nd Day in Akaroa”

Everyone was worried about the flights. One 5 hr flight to Vancouver, followed by a 14 hr flight to Auckland, followed lastly by a 1 hr flight to Christchurch. Luckily, the flights were a breeze. Everyone slept for about 8 hours. From Stella: I was on a plane for 20 hours total. The plane wentContinue reading “The first 48 hours”

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