In September and October of 2008, we vacationed in the lovely country of New Zealand. For anyone considering international travel, I would highly recommend NZ. It's easy to get around, they speak English, their currency is also the dollar, and the exchange rate is usually in our favor. So we went. And it was even more fantastic than what we had been expecting.
It was springtime during out trip, and NZ was in full bloom (and so were our allergies). We spent our three weeks on both the north and the south island, and quite frankly we ran out of words for "pretty". This is the place where they filmed the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, so yeah, it's gorgeous and it has a lot of different types of terrain, and it's freaking green.
Alternate words for "Pretty":
Lovely
Gorgeous
Beautiful
Stunning
Breathtaking
Captivating
Awesome
Stupid Pretty
and
"Well, that's just retarded."
Where plant life is concerned, NZ is known for it's ferns. The national plant is the silver fern, a tree fern that has a silver color on the underside of the leaves. And the tree ferns in NZ are like 30 feet tall. I had never seen a 30 foot tall fern before, so I was easily amazed. And these gorgeous prehistoric-looking ferns unfurl in spring. It was magical. And so was the smaller plant life. Little growies everywhere. And you're never more than a 2 or 3 hours drive from the coast in New Zealand. Beaches and stupid pretty everywhere you turn. There are many more reasons to love New Zealand, we decided we could totally live there. And we'll definitely go back.
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