After dropping my parents off to the airport, we drove to Whangarei (pronounced Fangeray) and set up camp for a few days. The campsite was really nice and had a nice pool to cool off in - result! We drove down to the dive centre and Ant booked in for the next day, to dive Poor Knights Island. The next morning I dropped him off for the day and headed back to the campsite. I just spent the day reading, sunbathing and updating the website and generally enjoying som...

We dropped Hayley off at Kellys house and drove half an hour further up to meet Mum and Andy at a campsite. They had bought some massive 1 1/2 inch thick steaks for their New Years meal and decided that we would love them too, so picked up a load more on their way back. So we all went for a walk to the shops to get a few more bits. On the way, the boys spotted a pub! Quelle surprise and said they would wait in there whilst we went to the shops. When we came back ...

For New Year, some of Hayleys friends had hired a really nice house in Lake Tarawera. There were over a dozen of them in total and Hayley and her friend Kelly were sleeping in Kellys Mums camper. We dropped Hayley off and went off to Rotorua for a few days to chill out by ourselves. We stayed in the Thermal campsite and for the first day just did nothing except read our books and take it easy. The next day the weather was a bit pants, so we ended up going to 'Of...

We arrived in the Mount and got settled in our campsite. We all went for a walk into the town, via the beach front and ended up having a few drinks in the pub. A few drinks turned into a few too many and we instead of the planned chicken stir fry, we ended up getting drunken food from the chip shop! Yummy. The next day was Christmas Eve and we had to brave the supermarket. Andy and Ant weren't overly keen, as you can imagine so they stayed around the campsite a...

We arrived in Taupo in the afternoon and I rang the Taupo Tandem Skydive company to see if me and Mum could do a skydive the next day. They said they could fit us in today if we could be there in 20 minutes. We decided to just get a move on and do it so of we went. By the time we got there, we were both looking a little bit more than scared but were determined enough! They got us into the gear and arranged who would be jumping with us. Mum, Andy and Ant stood la...