NZ!

Hey guys!
givin out a little shout from a place they call "The Mount" where Anna is working at the backpackers we've been staying at.
Actually quite a lovely place... lots of really pretty dutch and Danish girls... some Canadians (3 of us at least from Edmonton here!)
Things went really well qafter the last post I wrote from Taupo. we got picked up by a nice Maouri woman (the local native's here are called Mauoris) who took us around to see the geothermal powerplants here... I got a photo of part of it... but missed the huge valley of steaming pipes and turbines... amazing stuff.... and she told us of a series of earthquakes in the area about two weeks ago - Dad, perhaps you could look up "Rotorua" on USGS? it's on the north island. there are guisers in the middle of towns and things and hot pools everywhere... and then got picked up by the most wonderful lady right before dark... a really beautiful Irish woman with many stories to tell... wonderul energies there and she wants to visit Canada. I told her that I wuld put her and Leah into contact. I just know they would love eachothers company! anyhow... she drove us to Rotorua, where we camped out on the side of the highway where we could hear the mudpools bubbling and "blopping" all around us... had to get up nice and early because it was on privately owned land and there were construction crews moving in... so we got an early start. the whole place there smelled really stronglty of sulfer, it's nickname was "Rotopooa".. .wonder why? I actually like the smell there....
Next day all of our rides were Mauori people... first guy had a full mask of Mauori art tatooed on his face. cool guy. Next guy had a gun in the vehical... which he made us aware of from the start. He was a hunter and was very knowlegable of the area. I even got to ask him about the wallabies that we saw the night before... they are introduced... thought I was in tasmania when I saw them...
next ride was a huuuuge french-german-mauori guy... think he had a drug problem, which we later figured out... but he picked us up twice... took us around town to sell crystals and read our auras.... apparently I've got alot of green... alot of live! hahah
ok. weird time to leave off, but my time is up.
got to go. hitching to north of aukland! Vipassana time!

love you guys!