Rotarua

Hello everyone!
We are now enjoying the cold in the center part of the north island of NZ. It rained, snowed, hailed, winded, iced, and became sunny all in one day ...we are on top of active volcanoes! it is exciting maybe one will explode and we can see it! we also saw a geothermal station from the hot springs. we are heading to auckland on thursday! and i come home sat. night!!!

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