Stories & Updates
Things we experienced, learned, or wish we had known.
Our twelve-year-old had one answer. The ten-year-old had six. Our eight-year-old's top pick cost three dollars and involved a spade. A family debrief of sixteen days in New Zealand.
On the Queenstown waterfront, there is an archway with three words carved into it. We saw those words in action everywhere we went for two weeks.
How a long-held dream turned into a sixteen-day family trip through New Zealand, and why we'd do it again without hesitation.
Hot Water Beach on the Coromandel Peninsula sounds like a gimmick. It is not a gimmick. It is one of the strangest and best things we have ever done as a family.
We stood in a car park at Mt Cook at 10pm, stared straight up, and none of us said anything for a very long time.
Everything you actually need to know about flying to New Zealand with children, including the part where it gets easier than you expected.