Sorry, no Mexican food on Mondays. That's his day off.

Dear New Zealand, Thanks for the memories. I'm not your biggest fan but I'll see you again in 1 month. Make it good. Love, Heather.

Yes. Finally. We are about to spend our last night in our campervan and fly to Sydney, Australia tomorrow. It should be sunny, it should be warmer, and there should be people there who leave their houses/campers/tents past 5p.m. My back hurts. I'm bored to death. And if I have to deal with anymore rain and/or freezing cold I'm getting on the next plane back to Philly.

We had some good fun here: the glacier, the caves, the crazy paced hikes, the non-stop lamb viewing. But seriously, NZ, WTF do you people do here!? It rains more than the Amazon and everything closes no later than 6p.m. Cities look like ghost towns. Towns are completely deserted. The prices for everything are outrageous so even if things were open you couldn't afford it anyway. I really, really hope Queenstown in November makes up for the last 5 weeks otherwise Lonely Planet is getting a nice letter regarding who paid them off to be so super hype about this place.

We went to Taupo to sky dive and it rained. We drove to Rotorua to see if the weather was better and it was dead empty (apparently public toilets are not necessary on Sundays) and still too cloudy for sky diving. So we drove to Waihi Beach to spend some time there before heading to Auckland to turn in the campervan and fly out. Waihi Beach was nice...until it started POURING in the middle of the night last night and the temp dropped a good 10 degrees celsius. So we fled there to head to Auckland where it was still raining and cold. The city was DEAD. We're talking major city, 2p.m. on a Monday and no one in the streets. Insane. We drove back to the suburb where we're RVing it for 1 last night, saw yet another movie and exited into a mall that was closing...at 6p.m. And yeah, that's the norm across this country. Even restaurants were closing. Totally nuts.

We found one spot, a Mexican restaurant and figured we should go for it. They even have 2 for 1 coronas from 5 to 7 every night. Yeah, except no Mexican food on Mondays...it's "his" (I'm guessing the only Mexican in NZ?) day off. And so it was frozen pizzas, soon to be followed up with chocolate cake, for our last night here.

To be honest, I'm just proud of myself for making it this far.