The Ostrom Family Adventures

We have arrived!!

We landed late last night in Auckland and made it through customs really smoothly and walked across the street with all of our luggage to a hotel and slept really hard and well.

Woke up and had a gorgeous breakfast at the hotel and coffee then walked across the street to pick up a rental truck – a Ford ranger wildtrak! Drove from the right side of the car – on the left side of the road safely down to Hamilton (took about 1 hour 20 minutes). Our Airbnb wasn’t quite ready but we were able to park the truck there and walked around the lake to a park and cafe. Had a bit of lunch and then walked down to the clinic where I’ll be working and the MMA and Free Running/tricking gym next to it!

When we got back to our Airbnb, one of the Physician Mom’s I met on a huge world-wide physician moms group (PMG) was driving by with her family and stopped in to say welcome, which was so nice that we we ended up following them back to their house and sat outside and had snacks and talked for a long time while their boys and Leif played basketball.

We drove around a bit afterward and found Woolworths grocery store and picked up already seasoned Salmon, rice and salad (and I truly just enjoyed walking around the grocery store – it’s one of my favorite things when in new countries.)

Returned to the Airbnb and all helped cook our dinner and then ate watching the sunset on the lake and listening to the ducks get ready for sleep.

Such a perfect first day!!

(And yes, if you must know, I have already gotten a small sunburn!)