from the ashes a fire shall be woken,
a light from the shadows shall spring;
renewed shall be blade that was broken,
the crownless again shall be king.

i got to play with the lord of the rings swords in queenstown.


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on the second day in rotorua we did a jet boat tour to geysers in the morning and a spa trip to sit in a mud bath and then walk around more geysers in the afetrnoon ( Read more... )

ahh.. i should find a map of new zeland as an avatar. on the hotel computers tonight, apparently i managed to spend $60 NZD on internet over the last three days. oops ( Read more... )

one of the things i really wanted to do in queenstown was the LOTR tour. oh yeah, super geek, stop reading if you want to be judgmental. i didnt actually know the physical locations of a lot of the filming because my geographical knowledge of new zealand is quite poor. that has somewhat changed. deer park heights is about 6km driving from the ( Read more... )

overall a good day of playing the tourist, with a twist of witnessing a bad event at the side of the mountain road ( Read more... )

here a few reasons why flying australia domestic, across the tasman, and new zealand domestic are infinitely better than flying in north america ( Read more... )