{"id":64,"date":"2009-12-01T12:19:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T17:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2013-05-26T13:34:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T18:34:27","slug":"day-11-arrival-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/day-11-arrival-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 11: Arrival in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"

We posted a little yesterday about our first day in New Zealand. \u00c2\u00a0We got to sleep around 10, which is easy to do when in a camper van and it gets dark. I (Mel) forgot it’s summer here, so was thinking it would get dark at 6. I was happily wrong, since it stayed light until 9 or so. \u00c2\u00a0We are currently in our camper van in a holiday park at Sheepworld<\/a>. It’s 5:something AM… this is what happens when you get to bed early… you wake up before 10am. \u00c2\u00a0I’m not sure how I like this development in our schedule.<\/p>\n

Here’s some pictures from our travels up here yesterday; it took maybe an hour to drive from Auckland to Warkworth, where we are now. We’re going to go hiking this morning when it gets light somewhere close by, we can’t remember where and it’s too dark to look it up \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"You<\/a>

You officially know you're on vacation when you're wearing chacos and sitting on the beach.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Wed<\/a>

We'd barely arrived at the beach, when Eli disappeared. After some searching, I found him lying in a tree, soaking in the scenery!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"I<\/a>

I set the autotimer on the camera and tried to join him, but look much less natural as a result of the mad dash to beat the 10 second timer \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Our<\/a>

Our home on wheels for the next 2.5 weeks, parked at our second stop, Moirs Hill Walkway.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"A<\/a>

A forest view from the walkway. In addition to the palm trees dotting the forest canopy, we also have tree ferns. <\/p><\/div>\n

\"Eli<\/a>

Eli and I at the end of our short forest hike to the waterfall<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The first thing we saw when we pulled into Sheepworld was this group of pink sheep. I'm not sure what their story is... but they're definitely something I've never seen before.<\/p><\/div>\n

More pictures on our website:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/wildsprite.com\/gallery\/v\/honeymoon\/NZ\/North\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, we’re going to go cook us some breakfast (egg and slab bacon breakfast wraps), brush our teeth in tap water for the first time since France (can’t drink India water), and go for our hike on the way to visit Eli’s co-worker’s daughter, Tiana, who lives an hour north of here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We posted a little yesterday about our first day in New Zealand. \u00c2\u00a0We got to sleep around 10, which is easy to do when in a camper van and it gets dark. I (Mel) forgot it’s summer here, so was thinking it would get dark at 6. I was happily wrong, since it stayed light […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}