New Zealand 4 - Easter Family Fun

On Easter Sunday we traveled all day, we called it "Easter Family Fun". We first missed our bus in the morning because we thought it came at 8 instead of 7, so after working it out with a kind bus driver, we were on the road again (after about an hour of panic).

We then hopped on a ferry that took us from the South Island to the North Island called the Interislander. It was a nice ride and we played cards and just mainly relaxed.



That night we stayed in Wellington. This is our hostel room and what we stayed in everywhere we went in New Zealand. Some were nicer than others, this one was pretty nice and spacious compared to some we stayed in that resembled shoe boxes.



The next morning we woke up early to explore the city of Wellington. This is Courtney and Kaite on the beautiful harbor.



We then hopped on another bus which us took us further up the North Island to Hamilton. I tried to take some pictures out the window of some sheep. This picture really doens't even do it justice though, the sheep are literally Everywhere in New Zealand! (All those little white things are sheep)



The next day we rented an 8 seater van and headed up towards the Aranui and Waitomo Caves. Ashley, in the driver's seat on the right, did an excellent job driving on the opposite side of the road and we all felt extremely safe (well after the first 5 or 10 minutes=)




This is more beautiful scenery. The snow from a week before still hadn't melted off the mountain tops.




Us with our van!



We finally made it to the caves. This is the first cave, the Aranui Cave, that we walked through. These are some stalagmites and weird cave spider things.



After the first cave we took a nature walk up to some lookouts and saw some waterfalls.



This is the last cave we went through, the Waitomo Cave. This Kiwi lady was our tourguide and kept saying "Ok people come this way" and "People look at this".. Right here she is saying, "Goodbye people!" We thought that was pretty funny.

The Waitomo cave is the famous glowworm cave. We took that boat through the this pitch-black dark cave and there were millions of these tiny glowworms on the ceiling. It looked like stars when you looked up, it was an amazing experience.

"Goodbye People!"