Kristopher's New Zealand Trip

*If you are looking at my moms comment i already corrected the mistake

So we have finally made it onto the South Island. If you ever go to New Zealand, let me give you a piece of advice. DON'T CROSS ISLANDS IN THE EVENING WHEN IT IS DARK. It was super boring, because we couldn't see anything. The ride was 3 hours on and the only thing they had playing on the television was Corination Street. I am pretty sure that it is the worst tv show in exsistance. Anywho, befor...

*note this is one day late because of internet issues yesterday

So lately we have been moving south down from Auckland to Wellington. We have been doing a couple things but mostly we feel that we will come back here once the weather gets better. First off we stopped at Matamata for a couple of nights. We found a cheap campground that had great facilities including a hot spring. It was super good because the weather was fairly sour for 2 days. Once the third day...

So the last couple days we spent driving up to Cape Reinga from Paihia and back to Auckland. We drove for a couple of kilometers down the 90 mile beach. That was pretty cool. We even saw a dead seal or something. When we got to Cape Reinga it was amazing. Where the Pacific Ocean met the Tasman Sea was incredable. From the cliff that we were on you could see the white water in the ocean and all the crazyness. After spending a night in the campground up there and getting hung up on a hill :dry:...

So 2 days ago we got to Paihia. We looked around for a bit and came to this tour shop. At the tour shop we decided to do a combo where we start off the morning on a dolphin watching ship and then hop on to a sailing catermeran in the afternoon. After it was booked and paid for we found a campsite and hung our there for the night. Come morning it was looking pretty gloomy but we headed out to our tour. Once we were on the dolphin boat they called our name on the intercom. We went to the desk a...

So we finally got out of Auckland. If you go to New Zealand, DONT BOTHER WITH AUCKLAND. We started drving north in our Nissan Stagea wagon. Lol its my dream vehical i tell you. There is nothing better than a beautiful station wagon. After drving north for a while we saw a sign for Snells Beach. Thinking that this was a public beach we headed that way to check it out. It ended up being a town named Snells beach. After drving around the town for a while we did discover a beach. We hung out at t...

So our flight is finally over. I started out saturday at 2:45. Departing from Winnipeg to Chicago I flew right over Grunthal and even managed to spot my home. When I arrived in Chicago I got lucky and got to my next flight right away. When I boarded that flight I realized I had somehow gotten an economy plus ticket and got a whole lot more leg room. Then I landed in LA a couple hours later. LA was horrible to navigate but an hour later I was at the next departer gate. An hour later I met up J...

So a couple days after i purchased my tickets to New Zealand with expedia I noticed that I had placed Kristopher Bryan on my ticket instead of Kristopher Martens. My middle name is Bryan and that got mixed up with my last name. I figured whatever this should be easy to fix. So I called expedia and they told me name changes weren't allowed by the airline. I told them that I wasn't changing my name I was correcting it so they "Called Quantas"  and were told that the answer was no. After re...

My best friend (Jordan Mahara I know this is the first mention of who I am going with) and I finally bought our tickets. We managed to get a flight on September 19, 2009 from Winnipeg to Calgary to Los Angeles to Auckland. Then the return on April 22, 2010 is from Auckland to Brisbane(Australia) to Los Angeles to Denver to Winnipeg. We bought our tickets for $1475 each after all the taxes. Look it up that is really cheap for a flight to New Zealand. Things are pretty much locking into place. ...

It's been a while since the last post. Thing have started tocome together. My visa is ready. Tickets to New Zealand are ridiculously cheap right now. I'm thinking of getting my ticket very soon. We have started planning where we want to go first, and then how long until we move on to the next region. I'll post again when more details are confirmed.

Well this week I finally got my mastercard so I was able to apply for the Visa. It is a working holiday visa so I can get a job if I need one. It cost my 120!! so I hope it goes through.