We are back where we started when we arrived in New Zealand…back with Howard and Jen in Taranga. We connected with Cam and Tracy yesterday and watched Cam do his “mustarding” I think they call it…it where a person works with his dog by whistling and giving instructions to his dog to herd sheep up a certain set out pattern up a large hill…very interesting and very “New Zealand”…we certainly enjoyed it and had a great time with Cam and Tracy…we then drove back to Taranga in the evening.

Tamara leaves tomorrow back to Taiwan…it is hard to believe that 3 weeks has come and gone…we have had a great time and New Zealand has treated us well. We will head out to Auckland tomorrow to drop Tamara off at the airport and then Jerry and I are headed to the ocean for a couple days before we head back home. We leave on Good Friday, March 25th and get home on Good Friday, March 25th…we gain the day back we lost when we came here.

We have experienced rain the last couple of days, but today was absolutely beautiful so Howard and Jen took us to the ocean on their boat and we had a picnic on the beach…absolutely out of this world…you wear lots of sun screen here as the sun is very hot and one burns very quickly.

I feel totally cut off from the world I know…I do believe that the longer one stays away the easier it is for people to forget about who you are and what you are doing….I guess that is just life…Tamara would love to move here so who knows what will happen in the future. We certainly have met some wonderful people on this side of the world as well.

’til next time……..