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After a loong break from blogging I have finally pulled myself together and made a brief update for you all.
So where to begin...? One and a half month has passed and it has been full on all the time. 

(Beach Rotorua)

I did an 11 day around the whole north Island.  And as you could imagine it was stunningly beautiful and so much fun. I saw beautiful places, beaches, gardens, waterfalls and neat little towns

 (Bridal veil falls) 

I visited the hobbit village, although Frodo wasn´t home, the atmosphere was magical with alot of fairytale feeling. Of course I did interact with the famous furry, white New zealenders, fed a little lamb with a bottle of milk.

(Hobbiton) 

I threw myself into the 5 hours cave experience, which turned out to be wet, freezing cold and just totally amazing, climbing on waterfalls, rafting on a rubber ring with glow worms to light up the way, speeding down a flying fox and absailing down a big hole, well I did tell you that it was amazing, didn´t I?!
 (Black water rafting)

As if I hadn´t got enough adrenaline from this, I needed to search some more and found the luge, an engineless go cart down a mountain, I found white water rafting, where powerful the water threw us down the 7 m high waterfall, and yes we did get wet, or rather soaked... ;) And of course I stumbled over sky diving, which was quite awsome, the 60 sec freefall was certainly exciting and when the parachute finally leaped out into the sky to act wings, I did feel like flying. 

 (15 000ft Skydive in Taupo)

In between all this crazyness I also had time to meet some cool people from all around the world. Some Australian guys took me to a naturally heated waterfall, which by far is the best "spa" experience I ever had.

(Hot springs Rotorua)

I did experience some Maori culture as well, an evening with delicious food and high class entertainment, and as you can see below, we have managed to capture the spirit of the Maori culture quite well. 
 (Hamilton Gardens)
 
To complete my journey I took a couple of relaxing day with my dear Kiwi and German friends, with bbq, evening in the spa pool under the starlit sky and relaxing time at the beach.

 

I will share a little secret, there is nothing like the beauty of New Zealand..... 


And what about the daily life? Well these ladys where waiting for me when I got home and we also got a male addition to the herd, Russel the guniea pig. But I´m not to sure if they see me as a friend or as food as they do occationally try to eat me.... ;) Otherwise the little girls that I´m looking after are as fun and happy as always and life here is very easy and a lot of fun.



In my sparetime I spend most of my time with Kiwi friends and my dear German girls , so much time that I now refer to them all as my Kiwi family. We often do dinners, as we all love food. And if you do like delicious food, I recommend you to get a German friend, because their cooking is just to die for and the Kiwis are not to bad either ;)

 

We spend our days doing daytrips, to places around Wellington, like the Weta cave, where they show of the New zealand film industry and of course I had to go there and say hello to Gollum.
  


Visiting the botanic garden with a senic view over Wellington...


A day in Eastbourne, with beautiful beaches and the nice butterfly bush walk... ;)



Some rock climbing with L.



A fancy, delightful brunch toghether with the other aupairs made last Wednesday memorable.



Taking a break at a nice café or having a movienight is also common activities that we all enjoy. Just the other day we spent our evening at the cinema watching "Marvel´s the Avengers" in 3D, which was a quite pleasant experience, and I can´t stop myself from being totally amazed by the 3D effects.

 (Cafe ais makes the most delicious Chai latte!)

 (Brunch with my dear D)


I guess you could say, without any exaggeration that I am living the dream. And how could you not fall in love when you are living in a place like this?

 (Rainbow over Lower Hutt)

A big Kiwihug to all of you!

En eftermiddag hos mina kära Kiwi vänner, alltid lika trevligt! Utsökt mat, film, varm choklad och trevligt umgänge, kan det bli bättre?! :D

Kvällarna spenderas hemma hos mina trevliga Kiwi vänner, som lagar fantastisk mat och är mycket roliga att umgås med!