Sort of fell behind with the updates lately. It is now January 12th and I have a ton of pictures and have done a ton of stuff since my last update. I think I can catch up in 4 updates… Rotorua, Stick Insect, Muriwai and Fiji.
So here is Rotorua… 
Sheila had done a weekend trip before I arrived in NZ and one of the places she stopped at was Rotorua. Rotorua has a ton of boiling mud sites, geysers and a M?ori exhibit called Te Puia. M?ori’s are the New Zealand indigenous people and are the equivalent to natives in Canada.
Dude doing his thing during the show. I learned that they stick their tongues out to intimidate people not just to make them laugh.
We decided to make it a day trip. In hindsight we probably should have made it an overnight trip because it was like a 3 hour drive each way…seemed like we were driving the entire day. Was really cool though…a lot of really cool scenery between Auckland and Rotorua. We made a stop at Agrodome (a petting zoo type place outside of Rotorua) where we saw some sheep and took some pretty funny pictures.
Sheila made me wear this hat and take a picture at Agrodome.
Te Puia was cool…the geyser stank so bad of sulfur and it was blowing all over the place so it was kind of like taking a bath in rotten egg water. It looked pretty cool when it went off though…especially the boiling mud. Sheila liked the Maori dance/show thing but it wasn’t really my type of thing. They made everyone take their shoes off and get into a small building (like 50 people)..it smelled so bad of stinky feet…hahaha
The geyser at Te Puia
Part of our plan for the day was to see the hobbit village from Lord of the Rings but it didn’t work out because we ran out of time. Another day I guess…