We are enjoying having Nana and Papa in New Zealand again - a quick visit from Malaysia. Kyle and I  even managed to escape on a cheap flight for two nights to Queenstown (think New Zealand's Banff)! I can't brag about the weather however…9C in the summer? Come on New Zealand!! All in all however; a nice mini getaway :)

Hiking to the top of the Gondola

Contemplating + beer

Beautiful Queenstown

Steepest Gondola in the Southern Hemisphere (hang on, is this something to be proud of?)

Our favourite Cafe

Which way to Canada? 

Lovely Arrowtown

Hansel and Gretel's Kiwi home

50 km return trip…why are there so many darn mountains in NZ?

and why do people fly all the way from China to do this? 

The remarkable Remarkables

2600km…no problem

Yahoo - back from a fantastic holiday in the South Island. We had good-to-great weather the entire time (miraculous for NZ) and we so enjoyed our time together. I feel embarrassed that I have taken so many landscape shots, but when faced with scene after scene... If it appears as though we were the only people on the South Island at the time…well, we were…pretty much. The towns we stayed in ranged in likeness from Prince George to Revelstoke to Sooke. Each unique and all serving great coffee (critical when camping/moteling with kids).

Coming into Kaikoura on East Coast

Kyle's day out on a boat netted 2 crayfish and 12 fish. Was I tired of fish by day 7?

Camping in the Ashley Gorge outside of Oxford

Grayson with his best friend

Kyle when not fishing…or thinking about fishing...

Lovely Tekapo

Love this part of the Island - Lindis Pass

See? People in Wanaka 

Cheeky monkey, I love you.

Brrr. 

Passing through Haast Pass to the West Coast

Rainforest on West Coast

Franz Joseph Glacier (and lots of Germans not pictured here)

Greymouth Cabbage trees

Gold Rush in 1800s

Pancake Rocks, geological wonders 

Old Mine, site of largest industrial disaster in NZ - 65 dead :(

Tragic Pike River explosion

Another cheeky monkey that I love!

Artist at work in Reefton

Kyle loved Hanmer Springs - just like Revelstoke! 

again pictured here...

Why do humans fling themselves off bridges with ropes attached to their feet?

Winery visits in Blenheim

Onions!