Quote Originally Posted by crazycanuck View Post
BTW Dianyla when are you going to tell us aboot your NZ trip??? I wanna hear about what you thought of Auckland's traffic and if it was expensive?
Whoops, I've been so busy since I got back I've forgotten to even mention it! It's definitely a more expensive country to visit than, say, South America. But the exchange rate is still somewhat favorable to even the weak US dollar. It also gets really expensive when you wander into an Icebreaker store.

We barely spent much time in Auckland and took transit the whole time. So I'm actually sure what their traffic is like. We spent most of our time down in the south, around Fiordlands and the South Coast. The Milford Track was absolutely beautiful and we were very very lucky to have clear fine weather for 4 straight days. We went kayaking in Doubtful Sound a few days later and got nearly hypothermic in the cold pouring rain, but fortunately that was just a daytrip and I had a hot bath waiting for me at the end of the day. Took a road trip along the scenic southern coast area. Oh, and we ate a lot of beef, lamb, and venison. Yummy!! I don't want to even think about my cholesterol right now, though.

I'm still in the process of trying to sort through the few trip photos that we were able to recover. We made a backup of them onto a DVD disc so that we could delete them from our memory cards and keep taking more pics... and then we lost the DVD. So we lost at least half of the photos we took. The experiences are more important than the photos, anyway. But still... ouch!