New Zealand

Well, I finally have an internet connection and we also got Scott's computer working so, I can even post pictures. Yay!! Anyway, I am writing from Gisborne, New Zealand. We arrived here a week ago. We left Boise airport at 3:10 p.m. on September 17th. Our flight from Boise took us to Las Vegas, Nevada. Then from there we caught our connection to Los Angeles. From Los Angeles we caught our flight to Auckland, New Zealand. The flights to LAX took about an hour and a half each with a little downtime between them. Our flight to New Zealand left LAX at around midnight on the 17th. We arrived in Auckland at 8 a.m. their time. We then took a cab to the bus stop and left on a bus at 10 a.m. At last we arrived in Gisborne at 7 p.m. We had a lot of traveling and were so glad when it was over. Catherine did so well. She only had about 2 times on the whole trip when she was fussy, and they only lasted about 10 minutes.
We have since found an apartment. We haven't found a car yet but, the pharmacy Scott is working at has loaned us theirs until we find one. The place we are living in is pretty nice. It is right across the road from Wainui beach. Pretty much the only thing wrong with it is the cockroaches. I HATE cockroaches!!! Oh, and it is freezing! But all the houses here are. We also have a snail on the bathroom ceiling. It mostly stays in one spot.
I have met so many nice people here. People here are just so friendly. Everyone says hi, and everyone wants to know your names. For the first week here we didn't do much. On Saturday we went out to the Eketone's house, Susan and Karaine and their 4 children. I got to meet them for the first time. Scott knew them from when he was a missionary here. They were just the coolest people. So friendly and personable. Within 10 minutes of being there Karaine had taken Catherine from me to give her "snuggles" then their kids played on the floor with her for forever. Even the boy. We then had a dinner with people from the ward. (There was supposed to be a ward party/dinner thing but it got canceled. So the Eketone's decided to do it themselves.) Scott and I played some game, it is like tetherball but with a tennis ball and rackets. I am also happy to say that I won 2 out of 3 games!! Later that evening we watched the rugby game at the Eketone's. We had a great day!
The pictures aren't uploading so I'll try again sometime later.