day 2 of NZ

alright, so i think it will just be easiest to go by day since i have so many pictures i would like to put up. i'll try to keep it interesting and i'll also try and get all my posts about NZ up before i leave on Sunday for Costa Rica...busy, busy.

so these are from our second day in New Zealand. we walked around town in Tauranga, which is where amy's family lives and where she used to live.
this is just a random picture of some shops. it rained pretty much the whole time we were there, which was neat since i love the rain. august and i were pretty happy about that!





some random store had a bunch of t-shirts that were hilarious! some not too good, but still funny. so here is august modeling a quite scandalous one. haha! august and i also managed to get into some quite awkward conversation with a guy that worked in the store. i'll spare you the details, since it won't be very funny the second time around (it was one of those "you had to be there" things). but the poor guy was probably left thinking something like "those stupid american people".



















































like how i'm smiling, but yet i'm supposed to hate everyone? haha!














































random sign, yes?































a roundabout! they are everywhere! oh, that's another thing. i thought that So Cal drivers are bad. NZ drivers DO NOT stop for pedestrians even when they are already crossing the street! they go as fast as possible without hitting the person. amy and i were crossing the street and we are about to step off the median in the middle and some guy comes out of nowhere making a left turn (which is like a right turn cause they drive on the opposite side) without looking and then upon seeing us back up, gives US a dirty look! the nerve! scary, man i tell ya.

this is a creepy picture with my hand and the background. it was getting dark and we were out jumping on the trampoline. haha














these are all from being on the trampoline. burrr! it was cold. oh yeah if you haven't figured it out yet or didn't remember, it is New Zealand's winter right now since they are on the other side of the world.















august can fly!












yeah i have issues on trampolines. haha! i could just see me flying off and going over the fence (it was a small fence, about knee high) and down the massive drop-off/incline into the valley of cows.

amy and the others went to the video store, so that is why they are missing from these pics.

happy august.















oops almost landed on top of august!