Well, we are alive! Sorry, to make everybody worry. We have honestly not been home for over a week... So much has been happening its crazy! But come on...Honestly, have a little faith. Where to begin? Hey, we are actually curious who looks at this thing. So leave us a comment by clicking on the comment part of the blog and let us know who you are. Don't be bashful...

So Rhett and I were planning on going to the South Island the whole time we were here, but never seemed to find the time with everything going on, and all the stuff we were doing... We had decided to just not go, since time was almost up, and we figured the north island was sweet enough. Well, after reading an email from Jeff Billen the Big Kahuna and talking to some of the locals here who said it was probably one of their most favorite places on earth, we decided, ahh, we might as well! So we made a few phone calls, talked to a few people, and we were off! We left Auckland Sunday afternoon at like 3pm, and drove straight to the south tip of the North Island, Wellington. There we were supposed to stay with Brendons family, but didn't get to his house till like 1am so we decided to just drive to the parking lot of the Ferry, and sleep there for the night. At 7am we hopped out of the car, hopped onto a Ferry for 3 hours, which took us from Wellington to Picton, on the south island. As soon as we arrived in Picton we drove straight to Queenstown, getting there at like 10:30pm. We stayed with some friends of the Crouches. Ashley and his sister lived in this big Cabin and owned a Pizza Place in town. We went in one night for some free pizza, and were pleasantly suprised with how good Venison Blueberry Pizza tasted! We stayed in Queenstown Tuesday Wednesday, and Thursday morning at 8 am we were back on the road! We drove straight to Picton, only stopping this time in Christchurch to visit a WildLife Park. With wild Lions and Tigers and Cheetahs! We got to feed giraffs and be less than 1 meter from a wild rhino. Sweet as. From Picton we slept in the car in the ferry parking lot, and caught a 5am ferry to wellington. From Wellington back up the way we came, making it home Friday night to Auckland around 7 or 8pm. Holy Hell that was a lot of driving! Well, you might be asking yourself...Why didn't you stay longer? Well, the answer? Becuase today, Saturday morning, we had a river rafting trip with the YSA here, that we couldn't miss! We were supposed to meet up at 6am this morning to leave for Rotorua, but somehow Rhett and I didn't wake up until about 8am! Haha. We were pissed, then we laughed, and drove the 3 hours down ourselves to meet up with everybody. The river that we charged was a 5 on the River Craziness Scale, and has the biggest waterfall drop commercially rafted in the world! 10 meter drop! Ohhhhh MAN! It was like the coolest thing I've ever done! Rhett agrees! We were on the river for lke 45 minutes, where within that short amount of time we hit 3 falls, and tons of rapids. It was awesome! We just got home from that and are exhausted!

So today was our "last Sunday" here in New Zealand, and the singles ward that we have been attending had us bear our testimonies as like a departing testimony in sacrament meeting today. It was sweet. They really love us, and we love them! The funny thing is that we thought today was our last Sunday, cause our original plan was to fly to Sydney on saturday. But to our suprise, The Crouchs have announced their love for us, and told us they were paying for us to stay two weeks longer! They paid for our ticket change and us to stay! Haha, we love it, and we love them! So we told everybody bye at the singles ward today, and now we are going to stay 2 more weeks! haha, Looks like we won't be going to that ward anymore! haha.