Thursday 27 June 2013

Tomorrow's the day!

Tomorrow is the day we leave! Everything is booked, and things are finally setting into place! We got our new car today and my dad's friend agreed to stay at our house while we are gone to look after the fish! We'll be leaving at 6AM with roughly and 8 hour drive. Yay.

Thursday 20 June 2013

39 days till the South Pacific!

Dates are finalized for my second summer trip and it's only 39 days away! Only thing I'm not excited for is that I have to get up at 3AM  and leave for the airport at 4AM :(

First place I'm headed is Hawaii for two days where we get lots of free time to explore and chill at the beach with an option to go snorkelling at Hanauma Bay which I will definitely do! Next up is New Zealand! Where we will first be touring Aukland where we will be seeing Mount Eden.  Then off to Rotorua and take a duck tour, a hangei feast, the Whaka geothermal area, the Waka Maori villiage and ride the Skyline Gondola!  Then off to Sydney, Australia where we will tour the rocks, Sydney Tower, National Opal Collection, take a harbour cruise and visit Sydney Wildlife World. Another optional thing to do there is see the Blue Mountains and Katoomba to see the site of the 2000 olympics.  And last but not least a stop to Fiji on the way back home to have free time to explore the island!

Thursday 13 June 2013

Summers coming!

             First summer trip coming up is only two weeks away! Aahhh. We'll be attempting to follow route 66 the best we can over two weeks anyways. We'll be starting in Chicago and then probably getting to Santa Fe/Albuquerque area. Last summer we did follow route 66 to Flagstaff but we didn't do much attractions along the road just the corner in Winslow, Arizona and the Cadillac Ranch. This year we intend to focas more on route 66 with many stops along our journey. As well as doing all that we are headed to an alpaca farm near Santa Fe. I'm super excited about that! They are so cute!
Standin' on the corner in Winslow Arizona!  July 2012.