After a restless overnight flight - no sleep, we arrived in gold coast airport in the early hours of the morning very excitted to hear english being spoken as the first language but even more excitted when we went to go through passport control that kiwis and aussies got to bypass the massive line and do all there own passport entry stuff with these fancy new machines! Boom straight through. Out on the other side we grabbed a bite to eat - much expensive than the...

We celebrated our departure only 20minutes before leaving as we had all been so busy partying and packing to even think about it We nearly didn't make it alive, due to Ma Pats not too good driving skills, already managed a 1.5m skid mark earlier in the day to pull off a red light run on way to airport - she believed it was a prepare to stop light - yet there was no way she was prepared to stop We boarded the flight in Wellington leaving behind a lot of sopping,...

Well our trip has started off with a bang, Wellington has been great! Grace and I got the ball rolling with a celebratory wine at 10.30am at Invercargill airport Koru lounge. We arrived safely in Welly and were greeted by Grace's mum. After a hello and a quick tour around the Weta workshop, we then said our goodbyes to Ma Patz and dropped her back at the airport for her to fly back to Invers. Staying at Grace's cousins the Soles in Johnsonville for the night, we...

Well our trip has started off with a bang, Wellington has been great! Grace and I got the ball rolling with a celebratory wine at 10.30am at Invercargill airport Koru lounge. We arrived safely in Welly and were greeted by Grace's mum. After a hello and a quick tour around the Weta workshop, we then said our goodbyes to Ma Patz and dropped her back at the airport for her to fly back to Invers. Staying at Grace's cousins the Soles in Johnsonville for the night, we...