Here are the pictures from our Milford Sound and Franz Josef Glacier trips. For those of you who are in these pictures and you wish to download copies, right-click on the images you like and the click Save Image. This will save the images to your computer. NOTE: If you wish to have the larger more »

We took the gondola up to the top of the mountain, explained in one of the previous posts. It was a beautiful ride up the mountain. At the top, we first shopped then we hiked around a bit before doing the luge ride. Then after that, we hiked a bit more through some forest and more »

Here are photos from yesterday!

What a bummer! We had our hearts set on ballooning here in Queenstown, but because the weather is Boss, our hot air ballooning experience today has been cancelled. I woke up early this morning at 6am to call Sunrise Balloons and got their recording saying the today’s flight had been cancelled due to unsuitable weather. more »

We have made it to the airport safely and gotten through immigration without any problems. There are many people here at the airport trying to get home but cannot because their flights toward Europe have been cancelled from the volcanic eruption that happened in Iceland. We, however, are fine going to New Zealand. Everyone in more »

The next adventure trip will be to Queenstown, South Island New Zealand. We will stay just off the lake in Queenstown city limits at the Heritage Heights Apartments the entire time, just a walk from downtown. Photos of Milford Sound [tiltviewer=flickr,550,500,+milford sound+] Here is the itinerary: Day 1 – Saturday, April 17 Fly to New Zealand more »