Hey yo, people. Nothing too exciting to report. After I got back from GBI, Ian and I drove to Rotorua and spent a few days there, which was fun. We went mountain biking through a Redwood forest, hiking, and to a Maori hangi (feast) and concert, which was lovely. We then spent a couple days trying to find jobs packing kiwis, to no avail, unfortunately. i would really like to make some extra cash to pay for my trip to Australia to see my Lara, but I guess I'll just have to make do. Then we went on a nice multi-day hike in the Kaimai Mamaku Forest Park, and then we spent the last week WWOOFing for a pretty sweet family in the Bay of Plenty. I chopped a ridiculous amount of wood, got covered in scratches from pulling out blackberry brambles, baked my first scones, and played with a very cute 4 year old girl who told me I was her best friend in the world. So, that was cool. We're leaving today and actually don't know where we're going yet. Oops. We might head inland to go to Lake Taupo, but I'm not sure if I'm feeling that at the moment cause it's fuckin cold. In fact, we saw our first NZ snow outside of Rotorua, and sleeping in the car was absolutely not fun at all. I had on 3 pairs of pants, 3 shirts, a hoodie, my fleece, two pairs of socks, a beanie, and gloves, in my Mountain Hard Wear 20 degree sleeping bag, and still froze. So the idea of heading into cold weather doesn't sit well with me. But we'll see, it's only going to get colder here throughout the next couple months, so we might want to just do it now before it gets worse.

That's it for now. xoxo!