Touring the North Island

So I'm officially out on spring break now for the next two weeks. It's pretty awesome, or as they say here, sweet as bro!

I am going on a bus trip around the North Island for the next 11 days, so I will be in and out of internet coverage sporadically, but I will update my blog when I can. There are four of us going together, and here is the trip as we have it planned:

Monday 23rd: Leaving Palmerston North and arriving at Rotorua. Rotorua is famous two things, smelling bad (due to sulfur geysers) , having a lots of extreme activities like louging and zorbing. I am very certain I will enjoy one of these two.

Thursday 26th: Leave Rotorua for Tairua in the Coromandel Peninsula. A lot of people have told us that we should not miss the Coromandel Peninsula

Sunday the 29th: Tairua to Auckland. We will stay in Auckland for a couple days.

Tuesday 31st: Leave Auckland and arrive in the Bay of Islands. We are staying in the Bay of Islands for three full days, and on one of the days we will take a trip up to 90 Mile Beach, which is about the northern most beach here in New Zealand. I will also be celebrating my birthday while in the Bay of Islands. I find that I quite often get to celebrate my birthday in an interesting places, and this year will be absolutely no exception. I'm sure the Bay of Islands will rank higher than something like Friday Harbor, but it will have tough time dethroning The Enchantments.

On Friday the 3rd we take a bus back to Auckland, and stay there the night, and then that Saturday we will take the bus back to Palmy.

Whenever I can I will upload pictures and info.

I also have a lot of homework to do over this break, and today I did not get anywhere near as much work as I hoped done. I did however, get a chance to talk to a lot of people from back home. I skyped with my parents and talked to Chris and Micheal (and Paul) who were at my house. At various points in the day I also got to talk to Drew, Ed and Alex via skype and facebook. As much as I am settled in here in New Zealand, I'm really excited for spring semester at North Park and I can't wait to see everyone back home. Hmmmm, I just implied that I thought of Chicago as home.