This internet cafe is hurting my hands… so I’m going to wrap up the highlights:

First night in the north island, stayed at a lodge run by a friend of a friend of Brian’s… so relaxing. great good, great company, great sleep.

Saw geothermal parks in Rotorua–the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. Who ever knew the color neon yellow could be natural?

Were still tired, so we checked into our hotel and…watched four movies in a row. No dinner. I think we’re going crazy. We watched: Daddy’s Girls (tyler perry movie), Rocky Balboa, Black Snake Moan, and Talladega Nights. Oh, and that morning we watched Fargo. Whaaaaat?

Then: CAVING. The CRAZIEST, COOLEST thing we’ve ever done. if you come here, you HAVE to do it.

100ft abseil (rappeling straight down) into a dark hole you can’t see the bottom of. Then a zip line in the pitch dark with glow worms over head. Then, tubing in an underground river. The glow worms above look like the milky way… only… they’re larvae of a fungus gnats. But if you don’t think about it like that, they’re beautiful. Then: swimming i nthe underground river, over a waterfall and a couple of tight squeezes. Then, by far, the coolest part… the last section of the cave we had to crawl on our stomachs, then climb up three waterfalls… the last waterfall led us to the light of day. It was the coolest, craziest thing I’ve EVER done.

Then, we went to our motel where we stayed in a PLANE that had been converted into a room. No big deal…we slept in the cockpit. Pictures to come

Now we’re in Auckland and we’re headed to Sydney, Australia, tonight. It’s been a whirlwind of a ride, that’s for sure.

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