Two things, the All blacks won, and my blogging is consistently becoming more scarce. I am sending a good amount of post cards though!!

After winning the World Cup, we went to downtown Auckland to watch the victory parade. We saw the Captain Richie McCaw, and the coach Graham Henry, and other members of the team holding up the Webb Ellis Cup! The city was PACKED, and everyone was so excited. I tried to show my support by screaming but I shouted too loudly the night before....

After such an exciting weekend, it was good to get back into the swing of things, however, it was a hectic week in my year 3/4 classroom as we prepared for the Samoan Fale Opening. A Fale is a meeting house. The children were in many dances, song groups, and haka performances. The Fale was ladened with Pacific flowers. A hundred people; family, friends, and visirots showd up to support the school. Sonny Bill Williams, an All Black that went to the school, came to show his support and dedication to his school.


Saturday morning we convinced our host dad to take us to the group bus in his Ford MachII to show off. Sadly, we were ten minutes early and no one was at the bus yet. We waited 200 feet from the bus and watched the rest of the group arrive. We drove around the black and made a grand entrance, clearly winning our own competition. We got on the bus and headed off to Waitomo caves. We saw the glow worms and took a black water rafting (more like inner-tubing) tour through the cave.

We made our way to Rotorua, (aka RotoVegas or Potorua). It smells like rotten eggs. This is because of all of the sulfur due to the geothermal activity that takes place. Sunday we saw KIWIS!! BABY KIWIS and geysers. and we went to the Polynesian Spa with enough naked people to last me a lifetime. Luckily, I was able to ge this image out of my mind by going up the gondola and luging. Sadly, the joke of the day was "wow, youre such a luger," it was kind of pathetic. But luging was SO much fun! I went on all three tracks and was probably the fastest.