One can always dream

The reason I haven't been updating is easy; nothing has happened xP
Everyday has pretty much been like shopping in anyother town. But still it has been fun!

But all good things must come to an end, so tomorrow I'll be flying home again. It's bittersweet, I want to go home and see all my friends and family again, but I have fallen in love with this place and it feels like I never want to leave…

But then again I have a lot of other places to go (like the UK and the US again). So I guess I'll just have to come back another time.
This will be my only post before I land in Sweden again, sorry.

I know I updated this morning but since we've made a rather big jump across the South Island I thought it might be a good idea to post about it :P

We were probably as far south you can get on the island and since we didn't feel like there was lot of other things to do there we got airplane tickets to Christchurch, and it's such an amazing city!
We do love Auckland and Wellington more but Christchurch is still a great place to be, and they have some really cool stuff here.
This is probably our last stop before heading back up to Auckland (where we will be until it's time to go back home).

I'm so sorry I haven't been updating!
It was hard getting good internet connection and when I did get one my computer didn't want to upload any pictures, so I spent my time on other sites and such.

But we're now on the South Island, and it's so beautiful here! It's really like being in Narnia or Middle Earth…which reminds me that I was in Kaitoke Regional Park where they filmed the Rivendell scenes and in Wellington, which was where they filmed the part in Bree.

But back to the South Island. We went to several Narnia sights! I'm sure you're all familiar with this one ;)
It's Flock Hill, where they filmed the big battle scene!
It was so cool to be there, but while I was walking around taking pictures, my friends where walking around looking for arrows and other things that might have left there (even though I kept reminding them that it was nearly 10 years ago and everything is probably gone now). But one of my friends found an arrowhead! We don't know if it's from some film or just someone who forgot it there long ago (it was buried a big in the grass and dirt). I guess Alma is hoping for it to be from Narnia but I'm doubtful, we'll check when we go back home I guess xP

We were also at Lake Moeraki, another really beautiful place where they filmed a scene in Prince Caspian.

It feels so surreal that we're heading home soon…but I have a lot of travelling ahead of me so it's ok.
I promise to be better at updating!

btw it's 8:30am here on the 21th (just so you know because my blog is still set on Swedish time :P)

Couldn't post this yesterday, but we have now left Auckland and made our way down south.

We stopped in a town along the way called Tokoroa just so we would have to drive all day. It was a nice town, the parts we saw at least. We didn't really stay so long, we just spent the night there and started driving again in the morning…

After a while we arived in the Turangi, we'll be staying here for one reason only, it's a great city but we're here for some Lord of the Rings sightseeing! We're not only visiting Narnia places, we're big fans of Tolkien's world as well.
So tomorrow I'll post some pictures from a location I'm sure all LOTR fans will remember!

So today we went to Coromandel Peninsula (well we also went to Monte Cecilia but this is the more interesting part). And it was so amazing! I can understand why they used that setting in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, it was so magical.

We're all big fans of the Narnia-series so we had a bit of a fangirl moment knowing that they filmed there xD We kinda hoped that we would eventually end up in Narnia if we went through it a couple of times…but no such luck. I guess that was as close as we'll ever get to Narnia (if you don't count the other Narnia locations we'll be visiting).
And this was only our first stop when it comes to Narnia sightseeing, they filmed more on the South Island than they ever did on the North Island.

Now I'm heading to bed, it's almost midnight here… 

This one has really bad quality…sorry

I just realised that I haven't uploaded any pictures of our hotel or how we're living… my bad.

We're staying at the Skycity Grand Hotel here in Auckland and it's absolutely amazing!
There's four of us and I had the delight to share room with Olivia. The rooms a rather spacious and I think I'm going to like it here for a while, I will at least enjoy the beds, it's like sleeping on a cloud (if you don't fall through xP)! And they have a pool so I can still train (not like usual but still). They also have a gym where you can get a personal trainer…not something I'm going to take advantage of but I know someone who will ;) (hint towards Sara).

There's a spa as well, and I'm sure that when we're not out running about, Elin and Olivia will spend their time in there. I however will spend my time in the pool or dragging the girls to the restaurants in and around the hotel, I just love trying new food (I'm are real food lover, if I didn't swim regularly I would be as big as a house!).
 
Oh well, I have to go now. We're heading to the Monte Cecilia grounds and to Coromandel Peninsula, two of the locations where they filmed The Chronicles of Narnia (I'll post pictures later and I'm sure that all the fans will recognise it!). Enjoy the pictures from the hotel.

And this is our room

Just landed in Hong Kong, China!
It's 7am and we are sitting at the airport waiting for our flight to Auckland, New Zealand.

This was the only time I could update during the trip, not internet connection on the plane ofc (like always) and it was like a 10 hour flight! I'm so exhausted…
There's not much to tell about the flight…we flew business class so there was a lot of space at least. I hate when you sit crammed between two people and you can hardly move without hitting someone.

Elin was sitting next to me but she spent the whole trip sleeping :P
Then again, I spent the later part of the trip (right before we landed) sleeping, but before that I made sure that I had things to keep me occupied during the trip. I put every single Narnia film in my computer, plus some other ones just so I could have something to watch (I don't always trust the airline companies to pick good movies).

Anyway, like I said we're just waiting for our next flight and I have Frida and Josefin sleeping on the table in front of me (there's hardly any room for the computer!).

I'll post something more when we land in Auckland and we've gotten to sleep in real beds at the hotel.

xoxo

P.S. the blog is kinda under construction, that's why it looks like it does and why some of the links don't work. I'll fix that as soon as I can!