Adventure of the Year

I think anyone that's followed this blog can agree that I've had some pretty epic adventures in the last 13 months since we moved here. But the one I'm about to share may have trumped them all :D

Last month my little brother, Oak, and I left on a weekend trip all by ourselves... to Tonga! I had to leave New Zealand to renew my driver's license, and Oak was just along for the ride. Danny had to miss out because he was practicing for a concerto concert the next week, and had a basketball tournament :/

Me, parked in the NZ temple parking lot for a 1hr nap halfway to the airport

We drove all night to get to the airport for our flight, and we knew once we got there that we'd be picked up by the family of some friends in our branch. But after that we had nothing planned, only adventure!  The hardest thing about posts like this is picking which pictures to share, but I've tried to narrow it down to some of the most unique and fun things we did :D

 We traveled by bus, hitch-hiking, and in the back of our host family's truck...

 Local rugby finals, it was a super good match!

   

We picked and ate wild coconuts :D

 Because we were staying with a local family, we actually spent a good portion of our time just hanging out at their street stand or meeting relatives and friends. I really appreciated being able to get a taste for the real Tonga, not the one on the travel guides.

Oak and I fashioned a chess set out of random rubbish and scratches on the asphalt :D

It went by so fast, I didn't want to go home! When we got home it was right back into school and life :P I spent the whole first day back shivering in my school uniform because it was so much colder here in NZ