Another late ish start to the day, Sam is hoping to do a skydive while in Taupo so we’re hoping the weather conditions are ok for her to do it today. It didn’t start off raining but around 8.00am it started and just didn’t stop, so no skydive today then. We were all waiting until the rain stopped to make any plans for the day but around 11.00am Sam and Steph came over to ours and we sat in our van to make plans. It was hard because there is so much to do ar...

As we had a late ish night which we just haven't been having on our own, we got up late. We were all late in getting going and didn't set off anywhere until around 11.00am. We were going to make our way north together to Taupo. Along the way though we wanted to stop at Mount Tongariro aka Mount Doom from Lord of the Rings. We got to the car park and went into the i-site to ask about conditions on the walking track. She said it had snowed so it might take longer, ...

We woke up quite late, 8.00am or so, we had yet more driving to do today. We were making our way up to Okahune to meet Sam and Steph but they still don't know we have got the earlier ferry yet, we thought we'd surprise them. We got breakfast and set off, I was looking in the books to see if there was anything of interest between here and there before we get to them that we might want to see. Nothing stuck out so we carried on and decided to follow the signs if an...

We woke up this morning to a few cars going past but it's still pretty dark outside, it was 7.30am. We didn't rush because it was freezing and very misty which would make driving more difficult. We got breakfast and got going for 8.30am. It was still quite misty though, the sun was trying to make it's way through the cloud and mist. This did make for a beautiful morning drive. We were hoping to get a little way to Picton before getting some phone signal to book a...

We got up early again this morning and got going on the road. Todays aim is to get quite a bit of driving done north wards. Our first stop was through Ross which was a little gold mining town in the past. The largest gold nugget was mined from here. We only stopped for a little while but it was like being in the wild west. They had the old jail still standing which was pretty much a small porta cabin size with two rooms, the jail and then the room the policeman s...