29/1/06 Today we woke up at 7.30am to leave Christchurch about 8.45am. We did a little tour of Christchurch and it so reminded me of England. I guess it was based on an English town. We spent about an hour in the centre and then headed South. On the way we stopped at a place called Geraldine, where they have the largest homemade jersey, and believe me it is so big that it is in the Guiness Book of Records. Our next stop was Lake Tekapo, and look at the ...

28/1/06 Today we woke up at 6am to leave for Sydney airport to head to New Zealand for 7am. Our flight was at 9.30am. Weactually left the airport at 10am. As we were arriving into The South Island we flew over the southern alps and it was the most amazing view, so breath taking. When we eventually got out the airport, which this time we did not gett arrested as we declared everything even my brand new hiking boots, we found ourselves a shuttle bus to tak...

18/1/06 First day in sydney just wanted to chill so woke up late and had breakfast! After breakfast decided to explore Bondi Junction which is where we were staying. Found Westfields, which is the Oz equivalent to Bluewater, but by hek it was massive, N u would be in heaven! I spent so much time shopping that I didn't notice the time and it was dinner time and Binita and I had decided to cook Julia and Rod dinner so we hurried back! As the Aus...

8/1/06 This was my birhtday and it was really wierd waking up to warm weather and also being away from home, family and friends! However, I was gonna have a wonderful day! This morning we were heading for the Great Barrier Reef and we had to go back to Shute's Harbour and then take a bigger boat to the Reef! The ride out to the reef took about 2 hours and it was really choppy and loads of the kids on t he boat were sick! When we arrived the sea b...

7/1/06 Woke up at 4.30am to get ready for a 6am check-out! We were on our way to the Whitsunday Islands. Once on the coach we headed south towards Townsville where we stopped for breakfast. Between Townsville and Airlie beach where we were going to catch the ferry to Long Island we all had to introduce ourselves and we had to answer loads of embarrassing questions! Once at Airlei Beach we had to drop off some of our group cos they were going...