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Got back to the US this morning. 8D And I come bearing pictures...a lot of them! I'm probably not going to post up ALL of them (I have at least 350 pictures in that camera) so I'm going to post up the ones that I think are the best. ^^; The rest will probably be loaded into my Facebook album or whatnot. I also like to usually tell highlights from the trip through bullet points, but I'm just too lazy right now. I'll mention stuff here and there under the pics as ya' look through them. So...here we go.

 

A view from our hotel before the rest of the orchestra arrived.


I also tried some Marmite (it's yeast extract) along the way. It was okay, and actually not that bad. It just tasted like a really really salty beef buyon cube (the kind you use to make broths that come as a cube)



Once the orchestra arrived we went to a dairy cow farm for tea.


Went to see some geysers after that...


and some mudpools.


Hey look guys I found a kiwi bird!! 8D The guide said his name was "Mortis" with his buddy "Rigor" in the case. (Get it? "Rigor" and "Mortis"? Hahaha...ha?)


A few days later we went to see a sheep show. The dogs apparently like to climb over the sheep.


Along with a dog herding some ducks...


He also shaved a sheep for demonstration. (No sheep were harmed in the shaving. So no worries)


Then the guy showed us an outside presentation of sheep herding.


I had to take this because we don't have these in the US. It's basically a hamburger that has the burger replaced with an egg...


Here's Johnathan with a popsicle when we were waiting for the ferry at the geysers. He's an adorable kid, who is probably one of the few kids I can tolerate.


We played at the Bruce Mason Center on Wed.


The kids decided to swim in the hotel pool in Devonport. I decided to play photographer, along with I don't like swimming.


Played in the World Orchestra on Sat. There were at least 120 people there playing in the orchestra.



Here's all of us playing the "Video Games Live" medley...it was okay (not my favorite). I think the video was the better part of the whole thing. We played songs from Halo, Civilization IV, Bounty Hunter (Star Wars), and Kingdom Hearts. I believe that part of the video is from Halo.

Well that's it for the photos. :D I have nothing else to say.