That Time We Planned A Trip We Already Took

 So our manager Ashley is from Canada and had two of her friends from back home coming for a visit. They had planned a trip to the Bay of Islands and Sam and I happened to have off those same days and they invited us along. 

 We ended up staying in the same town and hostel that we went to on our first ever Loyola organized trip the first week we got to New Zealand. It was so funny/weird to be back and compare the two experiences and how different they were. Last time we were still getting to know everyone and everything was new. Our last trip was also jam packed with every tourist-y thing there was to do. 

This time around, we just got to relax on the beach and actually go into the main town and wonder/explore. We also took a ferry ride over to Russell and got drinks right on the water and watched a live band play – nothing too fancy, basically two guys trying to raise money to get to Australia. It was nice to travel with other people for a change as well.