We're finally in NZ!

After what feels like a very long journey, we finally arrived in Auckland this afternoon. Our road trip from Seattle to Tucson was amazing, thanks to some very kind hosts and hostesses, and the week in Tucson with Ian's family was also fantastic. We left Tucson a few days ago and flew to Fiji for two days, which was pretty nice--very hot and humid, but incredibly nice people and very lush green scenery like I'd never really seen before.

We got on a plane early this morning, had a 4 hour flight, and finally arrived at our hostel at around 3 pm. So far we've done a bit of exploring around the city, which has been great. It's a lot more diverse and metropolitan than I imagined it would be--my image of New Zealand was one of a fairly isolated, more rural country, and Auckland definitely contradicts that! This weekend we'll focus on getting all of the details figured out--opening a bank account, getting a phone set up, and buying a car. We're at our hostel for 4 days and then we'll be couch-surfing for a week or two further, and should probably be ready to leave the city by then. We found a really great couch-surf at a treehouse living with anarchist activists which is a bit outside of Auckland, and hope to stay there for a while. We'll then probably do some WWOOFing either North or South of Auckland and go from there. We decided to buy a campervan so that we can basically live out of it, and I'm looking forward to that!

Alright, we're off to listen to some free music in the park across the street, so that's it for now! I really do hope to have pictures up sometime soon, although so far it's been hard since Internet is sorta spendy.

Thanks for reading! Hope everyone is doing well. Xoxoxoxoxo.