HELLO NEW ZEALAND!!! WE HAVE ARRIVED!!!

We arrived in New Zealand at 4:00am on October 29th, 2008...I missed Tuesday the 28th this year...it does not exist on our calendars. :)

We very easily got through customs, although I got sniffed out by a fruit sniffing dog for having had a blueberry bar...thanks to my mother for making me take it for sustenance on the plane. :)  it was yummy, though.   ;-D

The hostel is very nice and has a place to store luggage, so at 6am we started wandering Auckland. Brisk, but really nice to walk around in! Orientation just ended and now we are off to get out Tax ID numbers, open our bank accounts, get sim cards for our phones, and then to tonight's happy hour where you get free pizza with your first pint. :)

Oh, and after orientation, here's our to do list:

swim with dolphins

black water rafting

white water rafting

bungee jumping

sky diving

WWOOFING (look it up)

fruit picking

canoeing

visiting the Maori people

scuba diving up near the north tip

surfing on the west coast

(most of the above mentioned things come along with payments in one way or another if we can work our magic!!)

There is much more, but that's the short version.

Tonight the boys (accountants that they are) plan on created the excel documents and flow charts to create budgets for various scenarios for achieving all this.  I told them I'd be doing my homework. ;-D  Sweet as!  (no!  not ass!)

TATA!

I'll have Ari do a post of his own tonight too!

Alissa