Hi Amy,

Our feeling too, (regarding going for PR the first time round!)
We'll be hopefully going for ours too this year. Eddie is in the process of reading through it all. It's so expensive aswell, it's going to cost us about $3,000!! Argggggghhhh ..... that was the money for my Jimmy Choos too.... you know I'm joking!...? I don't need shoes here.
How nice to go back home for a month, then come back and travel for 6 months. You've got to do it while you're young and child-free. Is it just travel round NZ? Probably not, 6 months is a long time!
Let us know how far you get with your application, it's like dejavu, (can't remember how to spell it).....this time last year we were at similar stages with our visas etc... ha
All the best
x