My Trip to New Zealand

     Well, guess what!!!  I went to New Zealand in July!!!  Daddy and I left on July 3, and came back on July 23rd.  We had a lot of fun!
     We went to Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World, like S. and Daddy did on their last trip to New Zealand.

                                                                  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I almost got eaten by a shark while I was at Kelly Tarlton's!  LOL

 

One of two divers feeding the (real) sharks, outside the glass in the shark tunnel...

 



 

The diver and a shark...

 

 

Me and a huge, but dead, squid...

 

 

Of course, we didn't just go to Kelly Tarlton's, we did a lot of other things, too!

 

 

Me on One Tree Hill, a really high hill in Auckland.

The island in the background is called Rangitoto.
The little arm of land sticking out into the ocean
from the mainland is where Devonport is.  I went with
Auntie Chris on the ferry to Devonport:

 

Auntie Chris and I leaving for Devonport on the ferry.



 



An awesome old tree in Devonport.  It would be

great for a treehouse!

 

 

   At the St. Heliers library, they have a female cat named Xena that's been living there for, I think, 10 years or something!

   Xena lives at the library, but she goes over to the police station across the street sometimes.  So she kinda lives in two places.

 

Xena the cat.

 

 

   Have you ever played lawn bowls?  I hadn't.  But my Nana plays it every week with some people from a local church.  You don't really have to play it on a lawn.  Nana's friends play it indoors, in a basketball gym, on long green mats.  One time I played it with them:

 

Me bowling.  This was one of my bad rolls.  :P

 

Me at the Orewa beach.

 

 

Nana at the Orewa beach (this was another time than

the above photo of me at the Orewa beach).

 

 



Daddy and me.

 

Me on a really cool zip line.  S. went on it too, back
in 2009 when she went to New Zealand!



     While we were in New Zealand, we Skype'd the rest of the family back home with our little laptop, using the free Wi-Fi hotspots provided by libraries and fast food places.  Here's a little video:

     Today at church our pastor read the chapter of the Bible in which God tests Abraham by telling him to sacrifice Isaac.  Now we're home, and I'm writing on my blog.  This will be my first post in nearly nine months!
     'Bye!
        ~Louise