To celebrate St. Paddy's Day and Beth's birthday we all went for a roast dinner followed by a Guinness session at the Irish Pub! We all dressed up in our Irish attire as you can see, and inevitably, had a good old Irish jig and potato bob. It was sadly the end to our week with Anand, Pete, Kelly, Jo, Tash and Beth but we all had a sweet time!

Yesterday we arrived back in Taupo- we were looking forward to coming back here to do the Tongariro Crossing- the most challenging alpine walk in the whole of New Zealand! So this morning we almost missed the bus by waking up at 5.30 am on the dot (when we were supposed to be getting on the bus) but luckily us Brits were well prepared and had packed our bags the night before! So after that shock of a start to the day we began the walk. Just like the trek in thail...

We arrived in Wellington a couple of days ago but as there was a music festival on we weren't able to stay for longer than a night because there was no beds! We'll definitely go back there though as it was such a nice city :) now we're at Lake Taupo, an absolutely enormous lake in the centre of the north island. Yesterday we did something pretty crazy and decided very last minute to do a 15000 ft skydive over the lake! It was one of the best things we've ever don...