mario, well done on selling your house, give me a text and let me know how much you got for it. still in Queenstown, went for a boat ride on an old steamer, could see the engine and the poor bloke filling the ovens with coal. Just got back from a gondola ride (like a cable-car). Then took a chair-lift to the peak and go-karted back down to the gondola. Last night was thankfully fairly uneventful, I went to bed at 11pm, the other guys got back at 2am but were not too noisy. At dinner, i spoke to the other 'oldies', an American couple who were both 28, and a spanish bloke who was 29. They are not partically enjoying the trip either and were saying how stupid the younger ones were, it made we feel a bit better. most people have done the north island tour as well, where i joined half way through the trip. Tomorrow, we leave for Milford Sound, on an overnight cruise. The day after to some lake. Will probably not have internet there, or a mobile signal. D