http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Mauione Thu, 18 May 2006 22:47:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here are some pictures of our last few weeks!!! This is our last day in Queenstown, N.Z. These pics are from Rarotonga in the Cook Islands... These are from Aitutaki Pictures from Tonga....and our own private island! Now this is love... Kava night with locals Goodbye to the island and our RTW trip! http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Mauione/picture-time.html Todd and Lisa have spent 270 consecutive days together and still like each other!!! Now we know there was a little speculation about the 'Bang'.....thinking that there was gonna be some big action... well our idea of a 'bang' is ending our trip on a private island in the middle of ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Mauione/its-official.html Sorry we didn't write earlier... we knew some of you would be freaked by the earthquake.  The problem was that we were in such a wonderful beautiful place... it didn't even have internet.  We will write all about it when we are not paying the same price for internet as our ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Mauione/we-are-alive.html We have heard all these stories from the 18 year old travellers about winning free stuff in the bars in Queenstown. Todd became somewhat obsessed with making it happen, unfortunately we always fall asleep to early... we're getting so old. Lisa was always making fun of him about "winning free ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Mauione/the-best-happy-hour-around.html A little birdy told us that they had a hard time reading the blog... because they were tired of hearing about all the great things we are doing and becoming very jealous. We would like to tell you all... we are ending the trip with a BANG and we forshadow ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Mauione/intellectutodd.html We went up north to the Abel Tasman National Park and did a spectacular 7 hour hike around the entire little peninsula at the tip of the island. We went through dry land, lush forest, out onto beaches, over boulders and even down to a little area that was full of ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Mauione/campin-trampin-and-crampon.html From Waitomo, we actually headed back to Taupo because we loved the thermal stream so much... and there is a free campsite. When we got back to our trusty campspot, we ran into some people that we had met in Rotorua. 2 of them were headed in the same direction ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Mauione/we-be-scrumping.html We have been so excited about telling you all our extreme adventures... we realized we are leaving lots of other things out.  When we left HWB we headed south to a town called Rotorua. It is a really active hot spot of NZ.  Everything is smoking and bubbling all around... ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Mauione/more-adventures.html We can't even believe it... we paid someone a fair deal of $$ to push us out of a perfectly good airplane!!! WE ARE EXTREME!!!!! We knew that NZ was the land of extreme sports, and have been talking about doing something since the beginning of our trip... so we ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Mauione/this-is-not-an-april-fools-joke.html So far we love this country!!! We don't want to curse it but we have had nothing but great luck.  First we booked a room in a hostel, but when we arrived it was full.  The owner convienently also had a B&B that she put us in for the same ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/Mauione/a-love-affair-with-nz.html