New Years eve was different for us. Normally we would have turkey insted of lamb. Our family went hiking to some waterfalls. The waterfall was very hard to find, but eventually we found them. We went swimming at the waterfall. Beneath my feet it was very rocky. We didn't stay too long because we had other things to do. When we got back we decided to get supper going. Mmm...nice juicy lamb in the oven. After eating the juicy lamb we decided to have a fire outside by a river that had eels. We tried to bring up eels with rotten eggs and a flashlight.  They didn't go for the eggs, but we did see them jumping in the water.    We stayed up until midnight and saw millions of stars.  It was a marvellous day!  

Ethan

In New Zealand  they  have New Years Eve in the summer .We played rugby .It was very fun.we hiked to the falls.We went swimming in it. It was so hot the tar melted! We all got tar stuck on our shoes. On New Year's Eve we stayed up until twelve. We saw millions of stars. We also went eeling. We tried catching them by using rotten eggs and a meat pie. We saw them jumping. It was very fun!

Elijah

New Zealand is amazing!  There are some really cool different words in New Zealand that we don't say in Alberta.  For instance:

Dec 17/10
Today we arrived in the Bay of Islands.  It will be fun!  When we were driving we saw lots of sheep and cows!


Dec 18/10
Today we went to the oldest stone house in New Zealand.  The stone house was about 200 years old!


Dec 19/10
We went to see Tane Mahuta, the biggest tree in the forest.  The tree was about 2000 years old.

Elijah

Today we are going to Hot Water Beach!    My Parents say you can dig up hot water. We packed lunch. They have huge giant waves that pull you under the water.  We dug a hot tub with shovels and packed down sand to make a wall.  After a while the water started to boil like a pot of steaming hot water. People were packing up all of their stuff when the high tide started to come in.  We left too. The drive home was 1 1/2 hours.  It was a long, fun day!


Ethan

Hi 3BJ!  The weather was roasting hot in the Cook Islands.  From our deck we could see blue fish swimming by the shore.  We went snorkelling to investigate.  The coral is really sharp and if you touch it you can get a scrape and it could get infected.  Deep in the water around the coral there are tons of bright colourful fish, like in the big aquariums at West Edmonton Mall.  Only way cooler!  The best part of the Cook Islands was snorkelling!  

Ethan 

At the Kelly Tarlton underwater museum I saw a penguin with a baby and lots of fish too!  I am having lots of fun. I saw a starfish when I was kayaking.  


Elijah

The weather here is HOT! It is like plus 30 degrees.It feels so weird that we came from snow and -20 to this!Today we went kayaking(which i am not so good at!)snorkeling,and I saw lots of fish! I even saw this really big one and it was blue! There are lots of different kinds of fruits. There are passion fruits,guava,coconut,papaya.We see palm trees all over and all have coconuts on them.The passion fruit is really good.:)
Another interesting thing that i noticed is that they drive on the other side of the road.The steering wheel is also on the opposite side as ours.CRAZY!