by Kristin Echols | Feb 11, 2016 | New Zealand, Travel
Today our plan was to relax and take it easy, so Shawn went out for a coffee and came back telling stories of his parasailing adventure. I slept in in our most comfortable bed yet. Then it was off to see Deadpool at the movies because it is opening day here and we get...
by Kristin Echols | Feb 7, 2016 | New Zealand, Travel
If only every morning could start with a walk on the beach. And I must admit it was a well-deserved walk on the beach because the night before we had the great cicada battle. We managed to let a couple dozen into our quaint beach house and spent an hour hunting them...
by Kristin Echols | Feb 6, 2016 | New Zealand, Travel
Shawn went scuba diving today, so I’ll leave the fish tales to him. I walked about town and enjoyed a leisurely lunch on the wharf at 36 degrees. (I’m guessing that’s our latitude. If I remember my 6th grade teacher correctly, longitude is the long...
by Kristin Echols | Feb 5, 2016 | New Zealand, Travel
As predicted, we woke up to a rainy morning, but with our handy list of wet weather activities we ventured out into the rain decked out in our quick-dry clothing, hats, an umbrella for Shawn and raincoat for me. Because the north island just isn’t enough island...
by Kristin Echols | Feb 4, 2016 | New Zealand, Travel
We left Auckland today and headed for Paihia. I wanted to stop at a quilt shop, known as patchwork shops here. The shop is All Things Patchwork and it is a cute store with an abundance of Kaffe Fassett and Tula Pink fabric (this is an important fact for my fellow...
by Kristin Echols | Feb 3, 2016 | New Zealand, Travel
For a moment, we were wondering if we were going to make it out of LAX. We asked for directions and ended up outside the terminal and on a shuttle bus to the international terminal. I’m not sure if we could have gotten there without going outside, but it was a...
