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Sarah says:

Dear Friends and Family,
Before I go on to our latest trip highlights, I feel I must dispel an awful misunderstanding circulating amongst everyone posting on our blog. It seems everyone is certain David is taking photos of me drunk and posting them on our site. I must explain that those photos merely represent what I look like after traveling for 15 hours, arriving in a foreign country at 6 o’clock in the morning with no luggage, changing into my boyfriends clothing to meander around a new city trying to stay awake for the rest of the day. Most everyone reading this has, at one time or another, had a beer or two with me and can confirm that I usually look much cuter:) I promise I was not drunk - just without make-up.

Now, on to the latest!
New Zealand Highlights:
1. driving on the other side of the road is quite fun and, so far, I’m doing well. I don’t even have to wear my pink bandana on my right wrist anymore - there to remind me to keep it toward the center of the road (see pictures). I got pretty flustered at my first big round-about and had to ask David to turn down the “Go-go party girl” compilation tape he made for me so that I could concentrate and, voila, we made it to the other side.
2. Snickers with hazelnuts. super yummy.
3. hiked around a forest to see the largest trees I’ve ever seen in my life - see pictures.
4. the sun and sand have been amazing here. this country is just so stunningly beautiful. we’ve been driving all over the north island - with 2 1/2 more weeks to go of hopping from town to town, and we continue to be blown away by how pretty everything is. there also doesn’t happen to be a straight stretch of road anywhere. This would be on the lowlights list if I didn’t have motion sickness patches. But I do - so it’s on this list.
5. for my sweetheart: women’s world championship beach volleyball. per David, “there is nothing wrong with this sport”.
6. mud bathing:

things hard to get used to:
1. that we don’t have jobs to go back to on Monday. We haven’t really lost the feeling yet that this isn’t a normal 2 week holiday and we’ll be flying home soon to head back to the office. we are hoping the bohemian feeling falls on us soon - I’m sure not washing my hair for 4 days is helping 2. that this is really NZ’s summer. I just can’t get my head around having January conjure images of beach and cold beer. It just seems like we are vacationing in a place that happens to be hot this time of year.
3. an average meal costing $30-. Please see David’s forthcoming food expose.

Again, thank you everyone for keeping in touch with us! For those interested, we are now in a town called Rotorua, famous for thermal pools and smelling of putrid eggs. Our next town is Waitomo where we will be absailing into caves and tubing along underground rivers. Stay tuned for more adventures. Oh! And check out how my golden tan is coming along!

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