Last month, we spent a week in the North Island of New Zealand, so beautiful, but enough latitude lower than Australia, that it was pretty cold. We'll save the South Island for their summertime! Our meetings were on the Church campus near the temple, but we rented a car and drove up, around, and over that island, with a couple of ferry boat rides as well. Here are photos of the Lord of the Rings film location in Mata Mata, about an hour out of Hamilton. (And why is it called Mata Mata....it doesn't matta.)
