Next up was Christchurch. This city has a ton of neo-Gothic-ish architecture and from what everyone says, is very English-feeling. This was the only place we had bad weather, it rained pretty much nonstop. Mom and I walked around and checked out the city a bit. The center of the city is Cathedral Square, not [...]

Our second stop was Invercargill, the southernmost city in New Zealand. Let me just take a minute to describe traveling domestically by air over there. It is completely different from doing so in the states. Even though the whole country is only about the size of Colorado, it’s ideal to fly everywhere since driving takes [...]

After about 24 hours straight traveling and losing an entire day to the international date line, we finally arrived in Auckland, on the north island of New Zealand. Auckland is a city of about a million people (NZ’s largest) and is situated in between two harbors. We had a gorgeous view from our hotel room. [...]