Welcome!

Hello dear readers!

Welcome to Alice and Zoë’s Excellent Adventure! We’re so glad that you’ll be joining us! On this blog we will be chronicling our travels for our dear family and friends. (Don’t forget to subscribe, now! The button is over there to the right.)

As you may have heard, we, your New Zealand-bound amigas, are finally about to leave tomorrow on our most excellent journey to the land of the Kiwis. We have been learning a lot about packing for long voyages, as we prepare to depart. For instance, choosing hiking boots over leopard print heels and taking a paper back or two instead of Harry Potter, the complete works.

We have been struggling to wrap our heads around just how long this trip is going to be. In the end, we think it may finally hit us once we are seated on our plane, taking off over the Pacific.

We are also starting to get super excited for what is to come. Here is a list of the 5 most excellent things we are looking forward to…

1. Trekking through Middle Earth, some of the most beautiful landscape in the world.
2. Experiencing some New Zealand quintessentials such as Rugby (once we figure out the rules), kiwi birds, and kiwifruit (basically all the extra opportunities to use the word “kiwi”).
3. Meeting (finding? tracking down?) Bret and Jemaine. This will happen. We are sure.
4. Encountering our first New Zealand sheep (and possibly adopting this sheep in Wallace and Grommet fashion),
5. The new accents! Although, in reality we will be the ones that sound odd…

Probably at the top of our list of things we are not particularly excited about is our amazingly long plane ride to come. Zoë recently raised concerns about what we are going to do to stay entertained for those 20-odd hours. If anyone has any suggestions to offer, we would be much obliged!

That’s all for now, folks! We will be blogging to you next from Auckland, NZ!

Missing you already!

Lots of love,

Alice & Zoë

Listening to: “Leaving On A Jet Plane” By Peter, Paul and Mary

Quote of the blog: “Be excellent to each other and party on, dudes” – Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (another fine adventure for the books)

Today’s travel token: This one courtesy of Zoë’s mom… If you can wrinkle an item of clothing by crumpling it in your hands, it is not backpack material, so don’t pack it!