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South Pacific

July 2 - 22, 1997

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11am - Arrive at Dulles

12:55 - Leave for New Zealand

Lost crossing International Date Line

5:30am - Arrive in Auckland, NZ

-Meet bus and Peter

-money exchange

-breakfast at McDonald's

-MERC center (climbing the wall, exploring the beach)

-go to Quality Hotel in Auckland

-Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World

-museum

-bus to Rotorua

-Souvenir shop

-go to Quality Hotel in Rotorua

-swimming

-Craters of the Moon

-Huka Falls

-Volcano Observatory

-Prawn Farm and Jet Boat ride

 

-4WD up the mountain

-walk down the crater

-Skyride in the gondola

-luge ride

-go to Maori Marae

-hangi dinner and Maori show

-visit Rotorua City Council

-Rainbow Springs

-Rainbow Farm Show

-bus to Tauranga

-meet family and go to homestay.

-hiked Mt. Maunganui

-went to the hot pools

-hanging out with homestay sister and her friends

Last Day in New Zealand

-rain forrest video and walk

-shopping at the mall

-back to Quality Hotel in Auckland

-Improv show

3:30am - to Auckland Airport

6am - flight to Australia

-Meet new bus and Michelle

-Brisbane Harbor and lunch on Kookabura Queen

-check into Mercure Hotel

-Dinner at Ned Kelly's

-craft fair

-stop at doctors for sick students

-Forest Glen animal observatory

-arrive at Bundaberg and Kelly's Beach resort

-swimming

Great Barrier Reef day

-boat to Lady Musgrave Island

 -semi-submersible boat

-glass bottom boat to island

snorkling

-"Boat Ride from HELL" home

-ferry to Fraser Island

-hike

-tea at the lake

-walk to store

-night walk

-"sing-a long" with Mrs. Bohm

 

-Ferry back to Hervey Bay

-luggage cart dropped in the ocean

-to second homestay

-laundry

-relaxing with the family

Harristown High School with Frannie and Robin

-Rock Eisfestod practice

-bush dance

-shopping in Glen Innes

-to farmstay

-dinner and kangaroo spotting

 

-soccer in the field

-hayride to the farm

-lunch at the dam

-sheep shearing

-cow milking

-whip craking

-bush dance

-bus to Sydney

-Scone

-lunch at a lake

-tour of Sydney

-Hard Rock Café

-walking in Sydney

-group photo

-walk through a garden to Sydney Opera House

-boat cruise of harbor

-art museum

-Costello's opal store

-shopping

-Rain Forest Café

-Sega World

-packing to go home

-Queen Victoria Building

11am - go to Sydney airport

2:45 - flight home

9pm - arrive at Dulles

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Pictures

Me at the airport

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Peter, our New Zealand bus driver

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Me and the guys at McDonalds

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The guys posing in their climbing harnesses.

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Melyssa in front of a cliff on MERC's beach

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Melyssa with a cool rock we found on the beach.

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The group at the bottom of a volcanic crater.

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Beth, me, Georgia, and Georgia's dad coming down the mountain.

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Me and Melyssa dressed up for dinner.

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Me and Blossom from Forest Glen.

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Lady Musgrave Island and the Great Barrier Reef.

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Miss Bohm with Mandy the baby wallaroo.

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Our group.

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Me in Sydney. (Opera House and Harbor Bridge in the back)

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Some of the girls on the harbor boat cruise.

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Melyssa, Tyler (in the frog suit), Ryan, and me at Rain Forest Café.

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