My parents are in New Zealand now, and we have been doing so many neat things! For the first 3 days, we traveled around Auckland, and did things around here. We went to the Maritime Museum, and Kelly Tarlton's Antarctic world, which is kind of like an aquarium with tons of penguins, stingrays, and sharks. The next thing that we did was go to the Coromandel peninsula which is North of Auckland. It was beautiful! There was a mix of farmland and tons of beaches that were really pretty!
A few photos of the farmland:

We hiked up a hill, and saw this great view:

One of the neat beaches that we went to was called Hot Water Beach. When you dig a deep hole in the sand on the beach, there are hot water springs underneath. If your hole is deep enough, you can lay in the hot water that's in your hole. The photo with all of the people on the beach is when they were trying to dig holes to feel the hot water!
