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Ultimate Top Five Things We’ll Miss:
Sarah:
1) Kath and Kim (on 3) – An Aussie Sitcom
2) Lunch display cases in cafes
3) Random swims in random places
4) Endless supply of trashy magazines in hostels and cafes
5) Roundabouts

Dave:
1) Roundabouts
2) Free book exchange in hostels
3) Hearing cricket scores on the radio
4) Not seeing the ocean nearly everyday
5) Kath and Kim (on 3)

Ultimate Top Five Things We Won’t Miss
Sarah:
1) Sharing a kitchen
2) People who do not say “Excuse me” before pushing you out the way in stores and on the sidewalk
3) Having flip flops be the dressiest shoes I own
4) Paying $6 for bread and oil in restaurants
5) Having the toilet be in a separate building from the bedroom.

Dave:
1) Restaurant service
2) Having my fleece be my only form of sweater
3) Sharing a kitchen
4) Kiwis talking through movies
5) Beer only comes in a half pint

Ultimate Top Five Things We’ve Done
Sarah:
1) Skydiving
2) Michael Stipe saying he loves me and dedicating Nightswimming to me
3) Flying in a helicopter
4) Zippy’s Chocolate Cake
5) Everything that happened in Nelson including: Saturday market and swimming holes

Dave:
1) Swimming with Dolphins
2) Skydive
3) Macs Brewery tour on my birthday
4) Whitewater rafting
5) Crashing the surf
** Please note: Michael Stipe did not talk to Sarah – she’s having delusions….

Ultimate Top Five Songs Everywhere and Everybody in New Zealand Loves But We Now Hate
1) Wild World – Cat Stevens
2) Hotel California – Eagles
3) Living on a Prayer / Dead of Alive – Bon Jovi
4) Song Sung Blue – Neil Diamond
5) Everything by Donovan Frankenreiter (A Jack Johnson clone)
6) Everything by Jack Johnson (A Donovan Frankenreiter clone)

Ultimate Top Five Reasons We Love Seattle Even More
1) Going down the pub with our friends
2) Quantum
3) Decent restaurant service and prices (especially breakfast/brunch)
4) Darby (our cat)
5) Living in a city

Don’t forget to check out our first gallery and our second gallery and our third gallery and our forth gallery and our fifth gallery and our sixth gallery and our seventh gallery and our eighth gallery and our ninth gallery and our tenth gallery and our eleventh gallery and all our extreme sports mad stuff.

Dave Says:

Well, that’s it. It’s just six hours before we climb aboard the plane and head home. We’ll arrive in Seattle before we left Auckland although I’m sure it will feel as though we left NZ a week ago. In just short of both 90 days and 9000 kilometers I think we’ve just about completed everything. In fact, so much we’re having trouble remembering one town from another and one mountain from another. Here’s some interesting facts for you:

Number of kilometers driven: 8955
NZ$ spent on gas: 810
NZ$ spent on beer and wine: 675
Number of waterfalls seen: 21
Kilograms of supermarket muesli consumed: 12
Number of hours of internet cafe time bought: 25
Number of times “Hotel California” was heard in pubs, shops, cafes and on the radio: 2376
Number of sandfly bites: 65 bites per leg per person (plus assorted assaults on other body parts)
Number of photos taken: 1210
Number of photos in our galleries: 822
Therefore: Number of photos you were spared looking through: 388 (say “thank you”)

the facts go on and on…. look out for out ultimate top five lists in upcoming posts.

What did we learn? What did we discover? Well, that’s for a separate conversation. Lots to talk about over beers and campfires. In the meantime here’s more pictures.

See you in Seattle!!

Don’t forget to check out our first gallery and our second gallery and our third gallery and our forth gallery and our fifth gallery and our sixth gallery and our seventh gallery and our eighth gallery and our ninth gallery and our tenth gallery and our eleventh gallery and all our extreme sports mad stuff.