We're Leaving on a Jet Plane(s)...like really...we've been on 17 separate planes in two months

So, as you can probably tell from the title, we were a little crazy with our travels the last couple months. Here is a map to show you every where we've been the last little bit.

And here's the list of the total distance that we covered. It was just a couple thousand miles shy of the distance it would take to circumnavigate the entire earth.

Look! I even have proof from the NASA website :)

Anyway, here is a smattering of our random adventures over the last little bit:

This is a shot of us flying out of Dunedin, leaving beautiful summer behind. New Zealand is always so beautiful. It kind of makes it hard to go anywhere else.

But it wasn't hard to be packed to the brim with souveniers to bring back to the fam! Every time we fly Air New Zealand we get these lovely orange stickers telling us our luggage is the luggage of bag boys' nightmares. At least it illustrates how to lift with your knees.

On our way home to the mainland we had a ten hour lay over in Hawaii. We rented a convertible and enjoyed the more the perfect day in the sun driving down North shore.

Ramzi's hair is getting long enough we both need hair- ties enjoying the Hawaiin breeze!

Ok, and maybe spending some time in  Hawaii made it a little bit easier to leave Kiwiland for a little bit.

And now onward to our mainland adventures.

This is me gambling for the first on one of our layovers in Vegas. I won $1.80! Oh the joys of being a legal adult.

I finally got to see the Temple Square Christmas Lights in person! Plus, I got to see my sister which was even better!.

Of course we had to get a picture the star AND the Temple :)

We also got to see Ramzi's brother Campbell, who was modeling his Christmas onesie for us! We told him he was totally ahead of the trend. Kiwi's already wear onesies! Even to the grocery store!

This picture (and the next one) kind of illustrate our weirdness and randomness. One night in Utah, we decided to combine all of the pretzels, peanuts, and other snacks from all our flights with our free popcorn, peanutbutter packets, and chocolate we got at our different hotels for a movie night.

It was actually really really delicious. It's nice when snack hoarding actually pays off.

Ok, hopefully none of you are weirded out by dolls because these are really cool. My Grandma has dolls for her daughters and her eldest granddaughters. These ones are Sarah, my mom, and then me on the right!

Here's the whole gang with Grandma, Sarah, Mom, me, Cousin Becca, Aunt Marilyn and Cousing Rachel. And did I mention my Grandma made all of these dolly clothes?! Well, she did, because she's awesome like that.

Here's the four of us (Sarah, Mom, me, and Grandma) modelling Grandma's awesome work.

Sarah and I are pretty lucky to have such cool relatives.

And here is a picture of one of our favorites from Tennesee (where Ramzi's family is). Her name is Rodeo (Rodee for short) and she is madly in love with Ramzi, as evident from this super cute picture.

And this was our New Year's in Knoxville. We sat by the water, listening to the fireworks, and drinking sparkling cider as we welcomed in 2015. It was pretty great.

Oh, and here is me getting a surprise kiss from a camel at an animal ranch in Knoxville. Not a dull moment, let me tell you.

Here's a picture from New York I missed in the last blog post. It was so cold that I would only hold still for one picture. If you squint you see the Statue of Liberty on the horizon.

Oh, and here are the floating lanterns from Tangled in the Disney store in times square. Photo cred, Ramzi, as always.

And this picture kind of sums up our time in Arizona, cactus and the Ramsay's. We stayed with my parents most of the time and Ramzi really got to know my hometown a lot better.

And this was my view at every morning run. Arizona skies are incomproable. 

We also got to get a little outdoorsy. This is me after a dusty ATV ride with my dad. One of the few times I've looked tan! (Well, at least my face does)

This is one of my favorite pictures from our ATV ride through a tunnel under some railroad tracks. You can even see a sagauro or two.

Anyway, two days ago we started heading back to NZ. But we ended up having another layover (this time overnight) in Hawaii. When we're going that way, we just can't help but stop by the island.

We stayed in Waikiki and we got a room with the BEST view!

We even had double windows!

We could see diamond head from our room! We were kind of spoiled.

So we watched the sunset and got ready to head back to our new Island we love, grateful for this chance we got to have some random adventures while seeing and taking care of our familes.

And you know, it's pretty wonderful to be back in Kiwi-land, where we can be as wild as we want ;)

It was a good summer holiday. But we're happy to be back :) We'll keep you updated on our Kiwi adventures soon!

Start Spreading the Snow --- New York in January

So, as a late anniversary get-away, Ramzi and I decided to brave New York City in the January cold. And guess what? We got SNOW! Let me tell you, 5th Avenue in the snow is pretty spectacular. Here are a few pictures of our adventures.

Columbus Circle our first morning we were there. We woke up to it snowing!

This is my default pose when Ramzi tells me to pose more excitedly.

And here is Ramzi's Captain Morgan pose.

After much coercing, Ramzi convinced me that we should make snow angels in Central Park. I agreed, but I did make him go first.

It was actually kind of fun in the end. Even though it was kind of cold and wet.

I finally got to fulfil my lifetime dream of having breakfast at Tiffany's

They had the best Christmas displays that were still up

Ramzi said I had to actually eat in front of Tiffany's in order to have breakfast at Tiffany's, so this is my sarcastic pose to his point.

This is 5th avenue in the crazy snow.

We got a random stranger to take a blurry picture of us in the snow (we didn't want it to be blurry, but at least you can see the snow!)

I was impressed with how much snow Ramzi's eyebrows would catch. Excuse my finger in the picture. I could definitely never be a photography as my cover identity for my vigilante antics. Just focus on the eyebrows. I mean, they're always impressive, but more-so in the snow :)

The Plaza Hotel in the snow!!

And this is my "you are taken photos to close to my face" face. Ramzi thinks he's funny sometimes.

Beautiful Christmas decorations still up all around the city!

I was having a hard time finding a comfortable hair style with my penguin hat in the snow (penguin hat credited to my awesome Aunt Mia who made it for me) but Ramzi told me the side hair look was really working for me, so we snapped a picture before hopping on the subway.

A penguin in Times Square!

A crazy Ramzi in Times Square!

And look! The Mormon's are taking over time's square.

We were rebels and wrote on somebody else's car in the snow. Totally worth the cool shot, amiright?

The best surprise of all....Ramzi let me pick out something small from Tiffany's for our anniversary!

I was really excited to have my first blue Tiffany bag. I got the sterling silver infinity ring. I took it out of the bag and put in on before we left the store I loved it so much. (I'll post a picture later)

We went to Les Miserables while we were there. It was SOOOO incredible to see live! We cried and never wanted it to end. Broadway for life! Also, as a side note, if you have ever seen The Singles Ward, the main guy Will Swenson was Javert in the performance we saw. He was so great! As was the whole show!

We also went to the Museum of Natural History! We totally didn't get that many pictures but it was incredible!!

This was right before we went in. Ramzi didn't want his picture taken (obviously)

But this was his reaction when I told him to at least pretend he was excited to go inside.

One picture we did snap was when we were laying on the ground underneath the life-size model of a blue whale (it was totally allowed, I promise). We just laid there and pretended we were under the ocean, counting our blessings from being together and being on such a great trip.

And we did tons of other things (like Grand Central Station and the 9/11 memorial) that I can't find pictures of, but we really had a great time. This is us in our swanky hotel we got to stay in for going to a time-share presentation enjoying our fancy robes.

It was a great way to celebrate our first year of being together, and being back in the states for a few weeks, and just living a very blessed life. We're a little tuckered out from travelling and are ready to get back to our little piece of Kiwi paradise. But we're happy and healthy and defrosting from NYC back in AZ getting ready to head back.

Thanks for reading! Have you been to NYC? What are your favorite parts of the big apple?