New Zealand

This is the temple in New Zealand. It was so pretty. We went to New Zealand for four days just before we went to Australia. It was so fun. Just my parents and me. Just like the good ol' times-right Mom and Dad:) We stayed in a really nice hotel with two bedrooms and a kitchen. The first pictures are of us on the airplane. It was a 12 hour flight but wasn't too bad because they feed you pretty good food and we had our own entertainment system on the back of each chair. Plus my Mom was prepared and had sleeping pills for us. We went to the Skydeck where we ate lunch and it was $40.00 a person. I decided that New Zealand is pretty expensive. The nice thing about it though is our dollar is worth more there so that made it a little easier to spend the money. It is the tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere. This was our lunch and did you know you can eat those flowers? I didn't and they were so pretty and really good. Also you can dive off this building and walk around the edge so we took a picture of these people doing it. CRAZY!! It was so funny to watch them. It was windy and everything and they still did it. Another day we went to the Auckland muesem where we saw the Mauri culture and they put dances on for us. Then we went to the botanical gardens and that was beautiful. On Sunday our old stake pres. and his family (who are serving as mission pres. in New Zealand) came and picked us up and we went to the temple, had a picnic and listened to a fireside they did for their missionaries. That was such a treat to get to see them. I will post more later.