Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Winter in the Southern Hemisphere

One of the biggest misconceptions we had about New Zealand is that it would have copious amounts of snow. To us Northern Hemisphere types, winter means cold, ice and snow. The only saving grace of the 5 hour drive to the Christchurch airport was experiencing some real winter weather. Although the drive was a bit sketchy at times, I don't think they believe in snow plows in New Zealand, it was very beautiful. And when the kids got out to touch the snow and make snowballs there were no complaints about the cold.

Overall we thought New Zealand was brilliant!

2 comments:

~Jason and Heidi~ said...

What Gorgeous photos!

Melanie said...

Quite a difference from your Fiji pictures. Looks beautiful. Just think you'll arrive home this fall just in time for winter again ;)