Ode to Wednesday July 26th.....
When we left Samoa on Wednesday, we got to New Zealand on Thursday (only 3 hours later) and with our travel the wrong way around the world, we will never get that day back. We feel we have aged a day without even knowing it.....strange world we live in.


We've made it to New Zealand. The RTW has begun. Ethan and I left Samoa with our Umu box and matching pulatasis and headed to NZ. We got out in Tonga and were already cold and after our arrival in Auckland, I still have yet to get the chill out of my toes!

Fa Samoa. Toe Feloai se isi taimi....

Sau and family picked us up at the airport and we headed out to Glendene where we were treated to a Samoan toanai. Although we had been eating taro and luau, it was nice to eat it with others that rarely get it. Of course, we let them eat most of it, since we just had toanai for a week straight in Samoa.

Auckland Toanai!


Lotu (Prayer)...in Auckland. Really, we are going to miss the Samoan style lotu on a nightly basis. It was nice to share it in NZ. So after a great meal, we watched some tv and fell asleep to Fast and Furious I. I walked to the "Dairy" (Samoan=fleoloa, US=711) and was amazed at the varieties of snacks, beverages,etc. You should have seen us when we went to the Grocery to pick out food. Sau really wanted to spoil Ethan and I when we got to the store and anything we picked up she wanted to buy us. Really, we just wanted to look but man those Oreos were yummy! We couldn't bare to eat icecream. We were so cold! On Friday, somehow we missed Wednesday, we headed into Auckland to change our tickets and here we are..... more soon.
Ethan and Sara


The whole fam...