Vacation Pics

This year we were very blessed with a few visa problems (the stamp in our passport that allows us to stay in the country not credit card problems). Unfortunate for us, we just HAD to go to Australia to get our visa renewed in order to return legally to Thailand. So we decided to take a short plane ride over to New Zealand and spend a little vacation time there. I know it's a rough life, we're just making the best of it. :)

We began by spending some time in Brisbane to work on our visa. Then we spent a couple of hours on the beach where I ate the yummiest fajitas ever at a Hard Rock Cafe. We can't get fajitas in our city so I take any chance to eat them when we are away.



Then we flew to Christchurch, New Zealand and visited the international antartic center. Chloe and Jeff slid down the ice slide in the snow room.

We spent a week in this campervan driving around the south island (the place where the Lord of the Rings was filmed). Since New Zealand is in the Southern Hemisphere it is winter down there as their seasons are opposite ours.

It was quite beautiful

We rode a luge down one of the mountains. Chloe thought sitting on the sled was fun at first. But as her and Jeff headed downhill she no longer thought it was fun.

We saw a glacier. You can see a person in the very right-hand corner of the pic. That's how big the glacier really was.

As we approached the west side of the island, we spent a little more time on the beach.

You may not be aware that New Zealand has more sheep than people. The sign we saw as we were driving down the mountain road said "Stock 30 km/h." Of course, we didn't know what that meant until just happening upon this sight a little further down the road: