Driving on the Wrong Side of the Road

So customs in New Zealand was a breeze. Took me like 2 minutes. It's so much easier when you don't have any food or booze coming in with ya. I'll keep that in mind. Though i also learn that they charge everyone a $25 exit fee for leaving. I guess cause they know with the cold weather people will be more than happy to pay it!
Ah, but got my Hertz rent-a-car. A nice little something or other. I'll get a pic of it. I'm glad i got to do a little driving with Russel in Brisbane, so i wasn't completely clueless, and the little sticker on the wheel saying "keep left" defenitly was a good idea by someone. Manual though, so shifting with my left hand. I'm a pro at it now, i drove about 3 1/2 hours today to make it to Rotorua. The roundabouts are the worst parts. Having to yield, and then signal as you go through and shift and ya. It's a lot to do at once. But so far so good! No missing paint from my car.

Nice little hostel i'm in for the night. Gonna go crash in a while. It's almost 9:30pm here, so maybe 7:30pm in australia.... so....5:22am in the States. Man i'm getting good at that time conversion.
Speaking of conversion, so now i've got a whole nother set of money things to learn. Very similar to australia, but different enough that i have to think about which bills are which. On the pluse side, the New Zealand dollar is only .61 or so of an american dollar. So yippee!

Going to go see a Maori culture park, dance, village, thing. "Untouched by the modern world" tomorrow, and then see about taking a tour of the volcanos. They've got geysers, hot springs, "day spas" that are really just natural warm mud pits with a "spa" building next to them lol.
Fishing on the 31st! That's the main reason for being here.
The drive was mostly in the dark, the sun sets around 5 here, so not much of the famous scenery, up early to check it out tomorrow.

Pictures as soon as i find a place to upload them!