Doug and Jamie come to New Zealand

It was so fun to have Doug and Jamie stop by for a visit! Charlie and Caleb were watched over while they were gone, so that was nice as well.

Given Doug's interest in "foiling" his laser sailboat (he's even made foils for his boat), one of the first things we did was take him to a place that rents sailboats. They have a foiling kit that they can attach to an existing boat. It is still pretty chilly in New Zealand, so Doug put on one of their wet suits.

He got some good instruction from Josh as we followed him around with the trimaran. I took the picture below from  other sailboat.

"Foiling" is not eaasy to do, but Doug did get the boat out of the water!

We went to Puhoi for lunch.

Then off to the Bay of Islands.

Paihia (in the Bay of Islands) is a very cool spot.

On the ferry to Russel.

The dolphins were very cool!

We had a very fun boat trip!

Doug and Jame went to glow worm caves ... they had a great time there!

The night before they headed off to the Cook Islands, we had dinner on the Sky Tower.

Quite the view!