The Adventure Begins...

Okay you all who are reading this. There are going to be a ton of posts at the beginning because we have crammed the past 2 weeks full of stuff and I'm going to write about most of it but I don't want it to be in one long epic post. So enjoy!
So we hopped on the plane on January 12th at 1:00 in the afternoon. We arrived in New Zealand at Auckland on January 14th at 5:00 am. It's really interesting because we actually just lose a whole day when we flew here. The 13th of January didn't even exist for me! So we got to the airport and we all gathered up all our luggage and go through customs and all that fun stuff and then we were in New Zealand. We rented vans for the first 2 weeks we were here and they were big 12 seater vans that conveniently ended up being red, white, and blue. We were patriotic even in New Zealand. So all excited and pumped up to get to our first city we stared to drive. It was absuloutely stunning. All of us pretty much had our faces crammed out the window with our jaws dropped in awe and sticking our hands out the windows time after time and snapping pictures from the car. The North Island starts out super green and it has these gorgeous gentle rolling hills. I've never seen a place more beautiful.