NZ Week 3

Tuesday I flew to Auckland, met up with David and Garrett, rented a car, stayed the night in Auckland. Got up and drove north on Wednesdat, Garrett wanted to do a 3 day hike along the northern coast. Drove most of the day, dropped Garrett off, went to the beach, found a camping spot. Thursday David and I went to some huge sand dunes where you can rent a boogie board and slide down them. Lots of fun, good pics. Camped near the beach where Garrett was to finish the hike, cooked a great dinner and then figured out if you put a little butter on English muffins and fry them on a pan, then add chocolate or honey, you get donuts. Yum. Friday Garrett arrived and we headed south again, via a burger joint. The BBs, well mainly Garrett, only want to hike (he hiked half the Applachian trail...1000+ miles, quit cuz his Grpa was sick)...so their plan is to get to the south part of the island today to start another 3 days hike tonight. Yesterday we made it to Auckland by midafternoon and met up with all the other people that are cruising on this 3rd cruise that leaves today. Roberta and Bryan (both RCT tour directors who were on the 2nd cruise), me and the MBs (Nate, Cramer, Adam) and then Vinnie (RCT tour director who was planning on just being in NZ til March, hasn't cruised with us yet) and the 2 Hawaii/Idaho girls we met on the last cruise who were "moving" to NZ via ship and Matt, another guy we met on the 2nd cruise who was with his godfather planning to hang out for the winter in NZ. So 3 rooms with a total of 10 people, it should be fun. We all have been bopping around NZ for 3 weeks so everyone has good stories to share. Should be a great cruise, I'm ready to eat free food and be a fat kid for a couple more weeks. If only the pedicure place was open on Sunday mornings...