IT IS GOOD TO BE HOME IN THE U.S.A.-THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY WE LIVE IN!!!!!

We are home safely and glad to be here and sleeping in our own bed!!! All is well and we are thankful for a fabulous adventure of a lifetime. Thank you all for following my blog and we will see each one of you soon.

LEAVING NEW ZEALAND-APRIL 2, 2010

We left the Huka Lodge and boarded a helicopter for a 1 hour flight to the Auckland Airport.

It has all gone so fast and tomorrow we will get on Quantas Airways and fly for 12 hours to the L.A. airport. We arrive at 6:30 AM on April 2 and passed the international date line, so we are having 2 Good Fridays.

OUR LAST ADVENTURE-APRIL 1, 2010-

What a fabulous ending to our wonderful adventure. We were picked up at the Huka Lodge by a heliocopter and taken to a boat on the Lake Taupo and then went fishing for trout. Lake Taupo is the largest austrial lake in the Southern Hemisphere and is the largest volcanic crater lake in existence. The last eruption was 186 AD. Don caught the first (and biggest) fish weighing in at 4 and 1/2 pounds and 20 inches long. We had lunch on the boat (as if we needed another meal!) and then I caught a 3 and1/2 pound 20 inches long rainbow trout.
The scenery from the air was spectacular. Photos follow.