Australia/ New Zealand/ Fiji 2014 Highlights

February 3 to 23, 2014

Mother & Sisters Aguirre Family Vacation

#aguirre2014

City Stops in Order of Visit

Australia: Sydney, Port Stephens

New Zealand: Auckland, Matamata, Rotorua, Wellington, Christchurch, Lake Wanaka

Fiji: Nadi

Highlights Recap

Best Accomodations: Wanaka Worldmark Resort, New Zealand

Also depicted: Subaru Legacy Rental Car in which we drove the entire length of New Zealand

Best McDonalds (a.k.a. Maccas): Port Stephens, Australia

Best Beach: 1 Mile Beach, Port Stephens, Australia

Best Weather: New Zealand, all of it!

Best Lamb: Maori Dinner, New Zealand

Best Fish & Chips: 1 Mile Beach at Port Stephens, Australia & Lake Wanaka, New Zealand

Best Food: Traditional Fijian at Nadina Restaurant

Best Restaurant Service: Nadina Restaurant, Fiji

Our awesome hosts sang the Fijian farewell song for us!

Best Show(s): 

Watching "Edward Scissorhands" in Sydney's Darling Harbor, Australia

"Sawia" in Port Denaru, Fiji

Except the girl dancers looked bored

Most Extreme:

Black Water Rafting in the Waitomo Caves, New Zealand

This is what we saw inside the caves... glow worms!

 

Hike to Rob Roy's Glacier, New Zealand

(Only extreme to Stephenie)

Most Beautiful: Lake Wanaka, New Zealand

Cutest Experience: holding a baby wallaby at Featherdale Wild Animal Park, Australia

Hottest: 

1 Mile Beach, Australia

Fiji Resort

Humid!

Coldest: Black Water Rafting, New Zealand

Suited up for tubing in cold underground streams!

Best Mingling: 

Mom with other tourists on the Blue Mountains Tour, Australia

Visiting a local family home for dinner in Auckland, New Zealand

Best Transportation:

Ferry from Wellington to Picton, New Zealand

Only to mom. The rest of us were queezy.

Blue Mountains Train, Australia

Quantas flight from USA to Australia

Best Drive: 

Rocky road to Rob Roy glacier hike, New Zealand

Wellington to Christchurch, New Zealand

Most Educational: Zhou Yeh Yeh in Rotorua, New Zealand

Our very enthusiastic and informational tour guide

Scariest Moment: 

Loosing luggage at arrival in Sydney, Australia

To Stephenie & Christina

Zhou Yeh Yeh falling off chair in Chinese restaurant, New Zealand

To mom & Veronica (picture at restaurant not available so one at their home will do)

Funniest Moment: Time capsule stop at Lake Tarawera while Zhou Yeh Yeh was talking to Germans

Best Architecture: 

Sydney Opera House, Australia

very cool up-close!

Christchurch, New Zealand

Absolutely smashing!... more like completely smashed, but still cool to see the remains of earthquake devastation.