Jason & Candice Wihongi

FEBRUARY 11TH TO MARCH 7TH:

This will be a short and candid story on our trip of New Zealand which was three and a half weeks long, here go's: Sad to say goodbye to Daddy but exciting to go to NZ, well not really excited for the flight but just to be in NZ will be awesome. Erana really liked her first time being in an airplane and flying. LA was dumb cause they were renovating and we had yucky sushi and realized after we checked in and went through to the other side to get to our boarding gate that we should've bought food there!

Had to haggle with the girl that was checking us in about my carry on bags! oi vai! I'm sure I was right, just look at your dang rules and regulations on the internet it says it on there!~ anyways got on the plane and Erana and I were sitting at an end of the middle section where there are four seats. We sat with two aussie guys. Well didn't sleep much, very uncomfortable, just listened to the greatest hits of Whitney Houston, wanted to sing along but ya know lol. At least Erana was able to lay out and get a moe!
Fiji yikes blimmin ghetto, it was dark and rainy when we arrived and it looked like a huge shed that we were going into, had to stay there for a while, and we found a quiet place with podunk couches and rested there.

Finally got to NZ and was so excited I forgot my purse on the chairs while waiting for the time to go meet my sister outside, anyways we were outside paying for the parking when I realized I forgot my purse and then frantically running back praying to god no one has taken it, whew it was still on the seat next to people, a lady saw me and says, "Sh_t you're lucky"! lol

Had a very nice and short stay at my sisters, they have an awesome house in a really nice area. Erana loved being with her cousins Tiffany, Skylar and Akaylah. I took the girls to the park which is across from their school and their school is about a block away. They had an awesome playground with even a flying fox, and a really long tunnel slide, where I grazed my elbows on when going down it. My Mum and Michael were there too, they came from Aussie to stay for a while, that's why I came the same time. Wanted to visit with my grandma but she passed away two weeks before.

There was a fishy smell in Whitney's room and they were blaming it on me and my luggage, but we quickly realized it was Michael and his tuna he was eating in the room. lol
Went to the markets and bought some maori/nz tops, bone carvings and caps. Went and ate at 'Yumcha's' and it was delicious, Chinese food in NZ is way better than in America. Watched 'Frozen' in the park and got free bars of cadbury chocolate bars! Went to the Pokeno market in the morning got a maori carved dish, and had some yummy tiptop passionfruit and mango ice-cream.
Mum and Michael and Lian left to go to Hastings. And Dad came to pick me up, Erana didn't want to leave her new best cuzzies.

We watched frozen at a park, where they gave out big size cadbury chocolate bars for free, you could choose from all the flavors too. We got Pizza etc and had a nice time. The weather didn't co-operate and it lightly rained, but we were prepared and had umbrellas & tarps to cover us up with.

Dad's home in Hamilton was really nice and we stayed for a bit, Cynthia and Tiffany showed up to come with us to Hastings. While in Hamilton we visited Strantz Wihongi at his work. And we also went to Jason's Dads gravesite 'Barney'.

Travelling to Hastings we had to endure Dads mix of his songs, I remember one song he use to listen to it when we visited him in Wellington 'Zoom'. We stopped in Taupo and got some t'shirts & stuff. The weather was nice and sunny, Tiffany and Erana played at the cool playground.

Napier, Pania of the Reef

This was the beginning of many trips to 'Rush Monroes' the best ice-cream ever. My favorite Passion fruit and then Feijoa.

I went to Hastings Girls High School to see if I could get me a 1992 year book. I didn't buy one at the time because I didn't want to burden my Mum with extra school fees. I was willing to pay for it no matter the cost, but when I got there the lady said I didn't need to pay for it.