We left Christchurch with lovely blue sky above us we head of to Flock Hill sheep station in the heart of the mountains, it was a pretty cool stop as we got to see sheep being hearded up by the sheep dogs (as you could imagine I was thrilled to have those running around me!) and learnt a little about they sheer the sheep, 300 a day at $2 per sheep, pretty good money, but hard work, not going to be my next profession! It was the Aussie rules final that evening on ...

We arrived in Nelson, said to be the place in New Zealand with the most sunshine, unfortunately not for us, very overcast and the majority of the days activities (anything involving planes, and water) were cancelled which was a real shame! We decided to walk into Town along the waterfront to kill some time before going for dinner with the whole group to celebrate Anja's birthday. The restaurant was really lovely and by far the best food of the trip so far! It is ...

Arrived in LA late to find that either I, or the hostel hadn't booked a bed for Joey, however what could have been a complete nightmare of an evening turned out to be really cool as they upgraded us from dorms to a private room for no extra cost, result! We went off into LA to visit Hollywood bright and early the next morning, we had decided that ti save money we would get the local bus instead of a tourist bus, it was very amusing, everyone talks to you and are ...

We arrived in Auckland after a very long flight from LA at 6am, however as this was the only day that we would be in Auckland we decided to dump our bags at the hostel and make the most of the (overcast) day we had there so after a quick pick me up coffee we head onto the visitor centre to pick up some information and head up to the Albert Park where we found a few interesting statues, I persisted with asking each statue who they were which everyone except Jo see...