Rotorua

Rotorua is a must see if you are ever in New Zealand! The pictures are a little backward, but here are Raven, Kia and Keaka at the hot spring pools.
Macy loved the perfectly warm pool.
Keaka was so kind to take us to the skyline buffet. NZ has awesome seafood at all of their buffets...too bad I was pregnant.
THe big hit of the day was the luge. You sit on these little roller cars and you go down the mountain on concrete trails. I was able to take Macy with me down twice on the beginner trail. She LOVED it and loved riding back up the mountain on the ski lift pointing to all the cows on the mountain side. Kainoa watched her the last trip so that I could go on the intermediate trail...soooo fun. I smiled the entire time.

Of course in true NZ fashion, there was beautiful scenery.

Hamilton Zoo

My sister in laws family lives right down the street from the zoo in Hamilton, so one day Clark, Macy, Raven, Tama and I walked down there. Macy and I were both enthralled with the animals.

I love this picture of Clark and Macy.

Brisbane, Australia

On our way to New Zealand, we had a 12 hr 45 min layover in Brisbane, Australia. Luckily my second cousin, Mariann lives there and agreed to come pick us up and take us around a bit while we waited. We ate, walked around, and went to this really cool look out point to see all of Brisbane.