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New Cell Phone Number

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Well we finally got ourselves a NZ phone number. It is +64 (0) 212978734. We get FREE incoming calls from anywhere in the world so please feel free to call us whenever you feel like it (unless of course it’s the middle of the night here). We are 13 hours ahead of GMT right now (until daylight savings ends) so if you are in Ontario just add 5 hours to the time there and that’s the time here the next day (eg. 2pm in Ontario = 3pm on the east coast = 12pm in Colorado = 11am in BC = 7am in NZ the next day).

Also some bad news, my USB card somehow got deleted by a computer at an internet cafe today so all the photos that I still had to upload are now gone (as well as everything else I had on there). Luckily they are all still on the camera card (I hope) so I just have to download them off there again. We also have them saved to CD so they are not lost completely but it might mean nobody gets to see the rest of them until we get back. Needless to say we will not be going back to that internet cafe!

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How do you spend 20+ hours in a plane?

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Well that’s how long it takes to go from Frankfurt to Singapore and then on to Auckland, NZ. Yes, we finally left the oncomming cold of fall in Europe to get to the warm spring of summer. We left Frankfurt on Monday at noon, and arrived in New Zealand at midnight of Tuesday.

We didn’t get much sleep on the plane, but that wasn’t a bad thing. Singapore airlines still keeps the luxury in flying, so we got plenty of meals, snacks and drinks. They were bringing me beers faster than I could drink them! The chairs were as comfortable as aircraft seats can be, but they had in seat TV’s with your choice of movies, TV shows, gameboy games, etc. I think we each watched around 6 or 7 different movies, and TV shows as well.

 So right now, we’re just chilling in Auckland, relaxing today after doing laundry. Tomorrow we start exploring the city, and maybe even looking for a new home/job/car or anything else we plan to do in the next 3 months we’re here.

Oh also there are more pictures put up, We have all the Eesti and Northern Europe pictures. We’re gonna try to get the rest up soon as well!

Venice and Croatia

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

We spent our last day in Greece in Athens wandering around until we had to go catch our flight to Venice in the evening. We managed to catch the changing of the guards at the Parliament buildings which was something ... [Continue reading this entry]

Finally, some of our photos are up!

Monday, November 12th, 2007
We have managed to upload some photos. We're still slowly working on getting more up but it takes alot of time on the internet. So enjoy our photos of Scotland. You can get to them by going to[Continue reading this entry]

Rest of Europe Plans

Friday, November 9th, 2007
Alright, a quick update of our plans while we're in Athens still. Tonight we fly from Athens to Venice, and will be there for two days, before we take a train and bus through Trieste to Dubrovnik, Croatia. We then ... [Continue reading this entry]

Greek Train Wrecks, Ruins, and Islands

Monday, November 5th, 2007
After Italy, we took a ferry from Bari, Italy to Patras, Greece. The ferry ride was fun, as we met up with a couple of Vancouverites the day before. We hung out with Devon and Tom playing card games on ... [Continue reading this entry]