To sum it up

So my adventures in New Zealand are coming to an end. I have been invited to stay with my host family until my departure which is very nice, one less thing to worry about.
To sum up all of my adventures here I shall begin with my arrival. I got into auckland on the 20th of January. My host family lives kinda outside of Auckland so it would have been a $70 cab ride. luckely I found free internet at the airport and found not only where they live, maps and direcitions, but a cheap bus ride over there. little did i know at the time but I was riding the same bus as some of my host family's friends, their daughter Natilie was waiting on the street to meet them and saw my confusion. That night they were having a party (not for us, just good timing on our part). A few beers into the night I had bought into a poker game, $10. a couple hours later and many beers later we were all having a good time, it was a close match but i pulled away $40 richer. We stayed with another host family the next night, they gave us some suggestions on where to visit, so we made plans to head to the south island. An 11 hour bus ride, a stay over in Wellington (a beautiful city that prides theirselves on every 20 something being an extra in the Lord of the Rings movie.) and a 3 hour ferry. We rented a little POS Ford Festiva and traveled some odd 3000 miles, or as they call it over here, 3000 kilometers! Strange. Camping, hiking, boat rides through fiords, climbing. One climbing spot, filled with hippies, we thought they were playing flutes, I kept trying to find these hippies, turns out they were birds. Back to the north island, a few hitchs up north, a stay over in a crappy little town called North Polmerston, a bus ride to a little town just outside of hamilton, a couple of hitchs to some climbing, then some camping, then back to Auckland where I am right now. Eric and I just took out a kyak around the bay, had some fun sloshing around in the sea. Eric leaves pretty soon for Australia, then I will follow in a couple of days. Thats about it right now.