Wow – talk about a whirlwind trip!

We left on Tuesday, flew over to NZ, drove down to the lovely conference venue in the countryside, and commenced our first night of drinking and socialising! Both of which played a big part in this trip!

Conference was fun, and really inspiring. It was great to meet up with all the others in the business and learn from their experience. Of course, the best parts were the parties at night…

The 80’s Party – What did you look like in 1984?? I was three – so here’s me on the right dressed as a cutesy kid… a bit bustier than I was back then, granted!

 

Liz and me...

 

Me and the girls - one of them dressed as her pregnant mother!

The Formal Dinner – silver and black dress theme, me in my ‘little black dress’ and some of my own silver jewellery… oh, and a bobby hat for this particular picture… 

 

I'm not the sherriff!!

Then, of course, we were off to gallavant around! I went travelling with my colleague Liz, and here is some of what we got up to traipsing around Tauranga and Rotarua!

 

On the beach at Mt Manganui

 

Looking out over New Zealand

I love Toi Toi grass - so beautiful...

 

One of many silly photos... 🙂

 

Rotarua stinks.. but there's a pretty rose garden!

 

Dr Who's?

We had an awesome time! New Zealand is a truly beautiful country, and now I want to spend more time there than ever before! On the bus trip home we passed through the town that they were based in while shooting ‘Hobbiton’ in The Lord of the Rings! I’m a LOTR geek – I’m actually re-reading it at the moment. I challenge you to watch those movies and not want to visit New Zealand!

Next on the list is going skiing on the South Island… hopefully that’s not too far away.