Images from
the 2009
New Zealand Ambassadors'
Visit to the USA
Explore the images we received from hosts, ambassadors, chaperones, and friends of the exchange program while the Kiwis traveled in the USA:
Images of the New Zealand Ambassadors' return to the Invercargill airport.
The Airport Farewell
~ Album 1a ~ Album 1b ~ Album 1cIndoor Climbing
Climbing at Edgeworks and a lunch stop at the International House of Pancakes. Have a look at the menu and see if IHOP sells apple pancakes.
~ Part 1 ~ Part 2Rolling with Joll
Another New Zealand Ambassador has contributed the contents of his camera card to the webhost. Here are four volumes of images of the adventure as seen through his camera lens:
~ Volume 1 ~ Volume 2 ~ Photos from around Los Angeles
~ Volume 3 ~ Volume 4 ~ Photos from around TacomaBethany's View ~ Volume 7
More views from Ambassador Bethany's camera, from time spent with her host family and the farewell dinner.Potpourri!
Wonderful photos that have come in of different events, but some after albums were originally posted or where there were not enough to make a new album.
Album 1 ~ Album 2Farewell Dinner
A Halloween theme, complete with costumes (and a principal that sings Elvis, accompanied by a NZ chaperone) at the Browns Point Improvement Club Oct. 12, as we realize the time to remain together is growing short...
~ Album 1a ~ Album 1b ~ Album 2NE Tacoma Elementary and Cooking Day
An Oct. 12 visit to the third of three of Meeker's elementary schools, followed by making your own pie at the Browns Point Pizzeria and baking up some Halloween goodies for the evening's farewell dinner. It seems they also had time for a stop at Krispy Kreme and Curly Slide Park.
Album 1 ~ Album 2a ~ Album 2bGarry's Gallery
On Oct. 5, Chaperone Garry presented the webhost with a 4 GB and a 2GB camera card, both completely filled with photos and video. Here at last are... 292 of the 1,193 images there:
~ Volume 1 ~ Volume 2 ~ California
~ Volume 3 ~ Volume 4 ~ Pioneer Farm, Ohop Village, NW Trek
~ Volume 5 ~ Meeker, Rattlesnake Ledge, Nintendo, time with the host family
~ Volume 6 ~ Volume 7 ~ Volume 8 ~ Seattle overnight trip
~ Volume 9 ~ "Bloke's Day," Safeco Field and Seattle Underground tours
~ Volume 10 ~ Red Robin dinner, Mariners game, time with the host family
~ Volume 11 ~ Tacoma Trek
Amtrak train to Portland, Oregon, Oct. 6-7 ~ shopping at Lloyd Center and Oregon Zoo "Snooze" sleepover. More Oregon Zoo the next day, then a little more shopping and return to Tacoma via train.Stuff We Did with Our Host Families
Thanks to everyone that sent these in!
~ Volume 4 ~ Volume 5Bethany's View ~ Volume 6
More views from Ambassador Bethany's camera, from Safeco Field to the Portland, Oregon overnight trip.More of Almost Everything!
Photos from Teacher Leader Sandra while in Tacoma, including an album from Oct. 5's Tacoma Trek (where the Ambassadors broke into carload size teams and had a scavenger hunt/rally about Tacoma).
~ Album 1 ~ Album 2 ~ Album 3 ~ Tacoma TrekStuff We Did with Our Host Families ~ Volume 3
Thanks to everyone that sent these in!More Fun in Seattle ~ Oct. 2
Everyone takes in a Seattle Mariners baseball game.
~ Volume 1 ~ Crescent Heights Elementary, the Safeco Field and Seattle Underground tours.
~ Volume 2 ~Seattle Overnight Trip, Day 2 ~ Sept. 30
Seattle Center Day! The Experience Music Project, Space Needle, and the Ride the Duck Tour. Home via the bus:
~ Album 1 ~ Album 2 ~ Album 3Seattle Overnight Trip, Day 1 ~ Sept. 29
Into and around downtown Seattle, then across the sound: Sounder Train, Seattle City Hall, Columbia Center, Noah's Bagels, Seattle Public Library, the Seattle Aquarium, and Blake Island and Tillicum Village.
~ Album 1 ~ Album 2 ~ Album 3Sept. 28 ~ Museum of Flight and Nintendo
~ Part 1 ~ Museum of Flight ~ located at the original manufacturing location of The Boeing Company.
~ Part 2 ~ Nintendo USA's headquarters in Redmond has a museum. And a gift shop.Rattlesnake Ledge
Sept. 25's hike takes the Kiwis through this area.Bethany's View ~ Volume 5
More views from Ambassador Bethany's camera, from Rattlesnake Ledge to Riding the Duck.Shot by Jones!
Another New Zealand Ambassador, identified on this site as "Young Mr. Jones," offers up his camera. Four volumes of images have been selected for your review:
~ Volume 1 ~ Volume 2 ~ Photos from around Los Angeles
~ Volume 3 ~ NW Trek to the Seattle Aquarium
~ Volume 4 ~ Tillicum Village to Riding the Duck
Sept. 28 ~ The Kiwis will visit each of the three schools that feed into Meeker.Welcome Dinner
Sept. 27 at the Centre at Norpoint with the host families. Look for the photo of the adults coming with the American Ambassadors in February.Stuff We Did with Our Host Families
Thanks to everyone that sent these in!
~ Volume 1 ~ Volume 2Welcome Assembly
Sept. 25's Welcome assembly at Meeker. The host students introduce the ambassadors.Images from Sept. 24's tours of Pioneer Farm/Ohop Indian Village and Northwest Trek
~ Part 1 ~ Part 2 ~ Pioneer Farm Museum.
~ Part 3 ~ Ohop Indian Village.
~ Part 4 ~ Northwest Trek (see their site for more information on the animals there).More from Sept. 23's Airport Welcome
Heaps of photos from the cameras of New Zealand Teacher Leader Sandra and Chaperone Gillian of the time spent from Invercargill to California:
Scenes from the trip, and getting settled in.Sept. 17 ~ Traveling to Los Angeles
Sept. 18 ~ Universal Studios
The Kiwis visit "The Entertainment Capital of L.A."Sept. 19 ~ Knott's & Knights
Fun at America's first theme park and then to Medieval Times.Sept. 20 ~ Relax Day
The Kiwis relax and visit Downtown Disney.Sept. 21 ~ Disneyland
What did the Kiwis celebrate?
Sept. 22 ~ California Adventure
Just across the entry plaza from Disneyland.Sept. 23 ~ To LAX
Getting ready to travel on to Tacoma.
Bethany's View ~
Sept. 23 ~ The Airport Welcome
Sept. 17 ~ Leaving Invercargill
A few more images from
Invercargill have come in, and can be seen in Album 2:
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Album 1 ~
Album 2 ~
Getting Ready to Host ~
Car Wash
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