My Journey Begins... Day 1-2

June 18th, 2011

My group getting ready for our journey

I will tell the short and sweet version of the first two days of travel on the journey to New Zealand.

At Chilles Too! Enjoying meal during our 6 hour gap at LAX.

   -Left Pasco airport to Seattle 45-50 minute plane
   -Seattle to LAX 4 hour plane
   -LAX to our destination New Zealand 13.5 hours



We were able to meet up with group from North Carolina and met our Tour Director Adam, who was with us 24/7, good thing.

It was a long journey but we made it!

So we continued our journey on the coach (bus), Adam shared his knowledge with us about New Zealand,the Mauri people and taught us some general saying: Sweet As bro: everythings good.

We went to the skyline to do the Luge in Rotorua, NZ

The luge was so much fun and fast! I wouldnt mind doing that again. For those not familar the luge consists of a long winding track. All downhill with a beautiful scenic view.

Afterwards went back to hotel got cleaned up for dinner and concert. We had a Hangi feast: lamb, veggies,salads...

Following dinner we had a Maori concert. It was fun to watch the performance some people volunteered to go up and learn the HAKA (intimidation chant). 

Watching the Maori Concert

And then we all went to bed... Very good first day.