Where Did the Time GO?!?

I'm a slacker, I know! :) It's just that last week was soooo crazy! :) I didn't really have much time to sit down at the computer, edit/delete pictures, and THEN post to my blog AND my facebook page! Ahhh!! So time consuming! But....alas...because I know certain of you are living vicariously through me, I'm here to fill you in!

So the beach at Waihi was amazing! :) It was nice to have a house all to ourselves, and a beach awaiting me! I have to say, I got quite an amazing collection of shells!!! And some Paua shells...it's the shiny greenish/greyish stuff. (Katy...you know what I'm talkin about don't you?? Haha.) But yeah! Good good pictures!

I wont be able to post all of my favorites, because there are JUST too many...but as a note, I woke up at 5:30 to catch the sunrise. I went out by myself and waited for the sun to peek over the ocean horizon. Sooo pretty!

Then later on in the week...it was craziness! We got things ready for the wedding! Renee was surprisingly calm the few days leading up to it! It was awesome! She was just so happy that it was finally here! The morning of rolled around and we had stayed out at Bruce and Michelle's for ease of transporting everyone together to the wedding site! The girls got up SUPER early to get their hair and make-up done. As for me?...yeah, I slept in and hung out! Haha. The boys and I got the cars ready and mosied around the house for a few hours or two, until the Photographers came! They were really cool! She just started her own separate business and it was nice talkin to someone doing what I want to do for a profession! She was excited to hear that I was majoring in Photography, so she let me follow her around with my camera and shadow her! I even got to go to the official wedding photo spots! Yay! My first Wedding gig! Haha...sort of! I got some great pictures! ( Just please don't save the pictures and spread them around! They're special! :) Thanks!)

Then...the next day...I went with Bruce on a roadtrip! (And sort of "air"-trip too...hehe) We flew to Gisbourne super early in the morning. (It's on the East Coast of the North Island...) We went to pick up the Transporter. It had a bunch of Heavy machinery on the back of it...the biggest truck I've ever ridden in, actually. Haha. The picture is of a 1-way bridge built on TOP of railroad tracks....yeah, it was BARELY wide enough for us to fit on, cause the transporter is HUGE!!! Ugh! AND...it was made of wood...even worse! But, I caught some awesome sunset pictures on the way back! :) The one with the sailboats and buildings is downtown Auckland and the big tower is call Sky Tower...it's got a revolving restaurant and cool stuff. :) Reminds me of Seattle, really. But yeah! Our trip back from Gisbourne took about 7 hours driving...ugh. :) And it was only about 315 miles long...that says something about the narrow roads and speed limit here! Yikes!

So...then Saturday morning Bruce and I got up early again and went North to deliver the equipment to the work site. It wasn't too far away. If you're looking at a map of NZ (...not that I expect any of you to have one handy...but...) we went to about Orewa. Close to North Shore.... :) Then when we got home, guess what we did?!?!?! We went to the ZOO!!!! YAYAY! :)

So...here's a collection of Zoo pictures! :) As a note, some of my favorites included...the meerkats, especially the baby ones (They whine like dogs...so cute), wallabies, Kookabura, and the baby tigers!!! They just barely released the cubs to the public a few weeks ago! Great timing to go visit the zoo! Enjoy! I took an incredible amount of pictures, but, of course, couldn't fit nearly even an eight of them on here, so my solution is the new hardrive I bought! It's a terabyte! (That's 1000 Gigabytes, in case you were wondering... :D ) So, when I get home, maybe we'll have a big party and I'll show everyone ALL of my pictures if you're interested! :) So if you're wanting more...you'll just have to wait a FEW more days! (It's 81 officially today!)

Now, I know you're all thinking to yourselves..."She took these photos from online somewhere!"..you're wrong! I took them all with my own camera! Not lying! :) Hope you enjoy! (And remember..don't knick any of the pictures! They aren't copyrighted, but they're my own work! Thanks! :) )

Toodles! And thanks for keepin up with my adventures! Love you all!