GOODBYE PARTY: My buddies Aaron and Claire- some of the first to arrive!
	GOODBYE PARTY: My math buddies- Jeremy, Simon, and Jason.
	GOODBYE PARTY: Outside playing frisbee- Rebekah, Tom, and Brendan.
	GOODBYE PARTY: We all gather outside for a final photo.
	UNIVERSITY: Some of my favourite sites around campus. This is inside the new central student facility.
	UNIVERSITY: A small park near the food court.
	UNIVERSITY: Along Symonds St.
	UNIVERSITY: Some pretty flowers in front of the political science building.
	UNIVERSITY: Susan (a friend on the same education abroad program- she's from UC Davis studying geology) and I study for our last exams in NZ.
	UNIVERSITY: Fiona, Pinamin (friends from the Railway Campus) and I eat our last meal together in Albert Park near uni.
	MY FAM's first day in NZ: My bro (Stephen) looks for a suitable outfit in one of my favourite clothing stores- Glassons.
	MY FAM: Mom orders a kebab- NZ style at my fave kebab place.
	MY FAM: Hello meat pies!!
	MY FAM: Discovering the outside of my housing- the Railway Campus.
	MY FAM: Discovering the inside of TRC.
	MY FAM: My brother sinks his teeth into something he can actually eat- a vegan burger at Burger Fuel in Parnell.
	MY FAM: My bro goofs off with a bird in the Auckland Domain.
	MY FAM: Guess what else what my brother did in NZ- did the half marathon with the Auckland Marathon.
	AUCKLAND MARATHON: Running over the bridge
	AUCKLAND MARATHON: Good scene.
	MY FAM: Dad is mighty surprised at what 'double scoop' means in NZ.
	My FAM: You think driving on the left-hand side of the road is weird. Try driving your family in a big fat van on the left side, when all you've ever driven is yourself in a small little Corolla.
	New Zealand money!!!
	TAUPO: Some falls.
	TAUPO: The view from our farmstay in Taupo.
	TAUPO: The farmstay.
	WELLINGTON: Walking around downtown in NZ's capital. It was nice to have paths for walking through the shops like this rather than streets with cars.
	WELLINGTON: Stephen and I try to learn to whistle like our dad.
	WELLINGTON: Wellington is known for its great pubs- here I have my second drink ever in NZ, a super weak grasshopper and kumara chips. Mmm-mmm.
	WELLINGTON: A scene from our hotel room.
	WELLINGTON: We took the famous cable car in Wellington up to a pretty view in the city...
	WELLINGTON: ...and the Carter Observatory, beholder of the only other planetarium in NZ! It was neat to see how they operate in comparison from Stardome in Auckland.
	WELLINGTON: Also next to the Carter Observatory are the Botanical Gardens. Here we begin our beautiful walk into them.
	WELLINGTON: My fave part of the gardens- the rose garden! I think I smelled every colour possible. At last I had time to stop and smell the roses.
	WELLINGTON: Here's a pretty one for you.
	WELLINGTON: The Parliament Meetinghouse.
	WELLINGTON: Here we are leaving Wellington on the ferry from the North Island to the South Island.
	FERRY: Squished.
	KAIKOURA: Our first night in the South island was spent in Kaikoura on the east coast. This is about the time of night we arrived- gorgeous!
	KAIKOURA: In the morning, we took a long walk along the beach in order to run into the notorious seals that you can come within arm-length to. We never found them that day.
	KAIKOURA: However, I did find Kaka road. (heh- Kaka is a bird in NZ.)
	CHRISTCHURCH: That day we also made it to Christchurch- here we are in front of the cathedral downtown.
	CHRISTCHURCH: This statue of Jesus is right outiside the Cathedral-'He is supposed to be welcoming people in.'
	CHRISTCHURCH: In the cathedral doorway- the faces of Jesus and the angels are salt-deterioted due to sea salt from the ocean during the shipping process from England. They could have been repaired, but the first settlers decided not to so that people would remember the hard journeys of the past.
	CHRISTCHURCH: A monument to recoginise NZ women being gogetters- they made NZ the first country to have women suffrage!
	CHRISTCHURCH: The Avon river that runs all throughout town. You can see people punting in this picture. How romantic! ;o)
	CHRISTCHURCH: Now all of us Redlanders know where The Daily Grind from downtown went. I got the best berry smoothie here!
	Coffee is so big in NZ! Here we savor some cappuccinos.
	MT. COOK: The tallest mountain in Australasia.
	MT. COOK: Stephen skips a rock- this is 1/1 billion skipped during the trip.
	MT. COOK: Mt. Cook has some gorgeous scenery around it.
	MT. COOK SCENERY
	MT. COOK SCENERY
	QUEENSTOWN: NZ's adventure capital. It sits in the middle of three mountain ranges and thus provides the means of many activities and much beauty.
	QUEEENSTOWN: The view from our motel.
	QUEENSTOWN: Downtown
	QUEENSTOWN: Walking back from downtown to our motel.
	QUEENSTOWN: Stephen and I take a break on the steepest hike I experienced in NZ: Queestown Hill Road. The forest got quite dense at this point- looks like Lord of the Ring territory!
	QUEESTOWN HILL ROAD: At the top of the hike.
	QUEENSTOWN: Near Queenstown there is a small country town called Arrowtown where upon the outskirts of town several Lord of the Rings (LOTR) scenes were shot. Here is where the 'flight through the ford' was filmed- remember in the first movie where the nine Nazgul chase Arwen and Frodo? Yep. Here it is!
	QUEENSTOWN: This is the path where Isildur trodded along after gaining the Ring from Sauron.
	QUEENSTOWN: I'm looking for the Ring where Gollum dropped it, but I guess Isildur got to it first.
	QUEENSTOWN: Stephen goes Paragliding.
	QUEENSTOWN: At the top of the tram.
	GLENORCHY: Stephen and I took a day trip jetboatting and funyaking with Dart River Safaris through Glenorchy- a beautiful, unalterted valley near Queenstown.
	GLENORCHY: On the jetboat.
	GLENORCHY: Getting instructions on how to funyak. Look at that gorgeous waterfall. It's spring in NZ so there were little waterfalls EVERYWHERE.
	GLENORCHY: Taking off.
	GLENORCHY: That peak (Mt. Jupiter I think) is where Boromir tried to steal the Ring from Frodo.
	GLENORCHY: scenery
	GLENORCHY: The 'grooviest' part of funyaking...
	GLENORCHY: ... heading into a small canyon!
	GLENORCHY: Inside the canyon.
	GLENORCHY: I think this is right before Stephen decided to tip us over ON PURPOSE! What's a brother for?
	GLENORCHY:After funyaking, we were driven back to the Dart River Safari base. On the way we got to see some more LOTR sites! Behind me is the exact platform of Saruman's Isengard.
	GLENORCHY: The scenery around Isengard.
	GLENORCHY: This is Fangorn Forest! (where Merry and Pippinn got lost)
	GLENORCHY: This is where Lothlorien was filmed- the Elven forest!
	QUEENSTOWN: The next day we left Queenstown up a windy road and we were treated to spectacular scenery...
	...and more...
	...and more...
	The scenery near the city of Wanaka.
	Finally we reached the West Coast of the South Island- which my parents renamed the 'wet coast.' It rained the whole time we were there- but it was still beautiful.
	Near Fox Glacier we came to our first Kea- a bird notorious for being very hungry and following you around. If you don't feed it, or even if you do, it likes to tear apart your car. How nice!
	Stephen and I continue trying our whistling after mimicking our dad in the mirror of our Fox Glacier motel.
	FRANZ GLACIER: My brother did a day trip hike on the Franz Glacier. Here we are standing about 2 km from the base.
	FRANZ GLACIER: Getting closer!!
	FRANZ GLACIER: At the base- that is a team of people just ahead of us on the same hike putting on cleats.
	FRANZ GLACIER: Taking our first steps.
	FRANZ GLACIER: Oh boy! A typical scene.
	FRANZ GLACIER: Do you know me well enough? If you do, you'll know that I am freaked out behind that smile. I was 'on the edge' all day- you could slip easily at any spot- I fell three times (gracefully of course). In one of teams ahead of us, a girl fell in a crevice (we heard her squeal)- though they got her out. Some of the crevices were 60 feet deep with a one person bridge over them. Others didn't have a bridge at all. FREAKY AS!!
	FRANZ GLACIER: It was a once in a lifetime, beautiful experience. This picture looks down from the glacier onto the basin below.
	FRANZ GLACIER: Stephen and I inside a funky ice cave.
	FRANZ GLACIER: Another shot through the ice cave.
	FRANZ GLACIER: A water filled crevice.
	FRANZ GLACIER: Looking further up the glacier during our hike.
	FRANZ GLACIER: Our tour guide, Kate, and Stephen beside a gorgeous waterfall.
	FRANZ GLACIER: Making our way back down the glacier- much easier than going up. That's the group ahead of us.
	FRANZ GLACIER: We made it to the bottom!
	FRANZ GLACIER: A momentary digression. This is how many NZ toilets look- a full and half flush option!
	LAKE MATHESON: I took a morning walk to see the Mirror Lakes and Mt. Cook reflected in it at sunrise- too bad it was raining.
	The west coast.
	PUNAIKI: Pancake rocks
	PUNAKAIKI: Do they make you hungry?
	PUNAKAIKI: Blow holes.
	PUNAKAIKI: Okay, so my dad got a picture than me.
	PUNAKAIKI: More west coast scenery.
	WESTPORT: Man was it windy there. I think my brother should be a model. How bout you?
	WESTPORT: Self explantory.
	MOTUEKA: We were able to stay at the greatest motel near Abel Tasman National Park! Our motel owners upgraded us for staying three nights. This is our living room, and this is what we did every night- watched an hour episode of Farscape (scifi).
	MOTUEKA: Our motel was equipped with trampoulines (my other favourite pasttime besides frisbee).
	MOTUEKA: My bro trampolining.
	ABEL TASMAN: My bro and I took a day trip kayaking through Abel Tasman, a park notorious for deserted beautiful beaches that you can travel at your leisure. Here we take a jet boat to our starting location in Anchorage.
	ABEL TASMAN: Split Apple Rock
	ABEL TASMAN: Wildlife.
	ABEL TASMAN: This was my first and last time swimming in New Zealand. It was wonderful- especially with the company of some birds on the beach.
	ABEL TASMAN: Eating lunch on the beach.
	ABEL TASMAN: My bro and I on our kayak. Look how shallow the water was here!
	ABEL TASMAN: Arches.
	ABEL TASMAN: Going for the goal.
	ABEL TASMAN: Boating back to base we saw dolphins!!
	The next day we left the South Island. The day after we drove back up to Auckland and passed by Mt. Ruapehu- where I had been with Fiona just two months earlier.
	Back in Auckland- our last afternoon we spend by Mission Bay/Kohimarama Bay.
	Driving to our motel that night- beautiful sunset!!
	Exhausted from the trip.
	The next day we left to the airport, and guess who I ran into at the airport??- Jin Kim! My church friend from the entire year. She is leaving back to Korea.
	My Mom made us all laugh at the amount of bags she tried to carry. I took back at least twice as much as I came with! Thus each family member kindly carried a bag for me.
	My mom and Stephen resort to their favourite activity.
	My flight's runway.
	Lifting off- there's the NZ flag!
	God blessed me with some beautiful scenery to reminisce/exit with.
	Way back in this shot you can see Rangitoto Island and the Sky Tower... if you REALLY look. And yes, I did shed a few tears, but nobody saw so it doesn't count.
	Looking down on a little itty bitty part of Auckland. That city is gynormous in spread.
	My sister and Nick decorated my room to welcome me home. What a treat!!
	Upon arrival, the beautiful, snow-capped mountains of Redlands from one of my favourite (I mean, favorite) lookouts.