Monday 17 September 2012

A brief return to NZ

With Granny so sick all I wanted to do was get home to NZ to see her and be with the family. Once we'd made the decision we spent a crazy 4hrs booking return flights from Lima – Los Angeles – Auckland (quicker and cheaper that via Santiago ironically), then booking the overnight bus to Lima, packing up all our stuff before getting to the bus station. I'm sure we squeezed in dinner somewhere. 48Hrs later we were back in Auckland, exhausted but pleased to be home.

We had arrived in time to see Granny and tell her about our amazing trip so far. She was an amazing person and did so much in her life. She encouraged all of us to follow our dreams. When we were setting off on our trip her parting words to me were to have a good time and phone her if we ran out of money. It was the right decision to head home.

The winter gardens provided some good photo ops for Ben to try out his new flash.

Bee gone

We had time to visit the amazing Zealandia, the Karori Bird Sanctuary.
There were many birds, including the raucous kakas.

And slow moving tuataras.

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