QUEENSTOWN - WELLINGTON After giving up on waiting for Winterfest to start we left for Dunedin on the Monday.Got there, checked in and then set off for the tour of the Cadburys factory that kym's been looking forward to. Plenty of free chocolate! The next mornin we (I) climbed the steepest street in the world before moving on to Lake Tekapo. Had a cool driver who stopped whenever anyone wanted to, to take pics of the beautiful lakes and mounatins on the way. Sto...

TUEDSDAY 3rd JULY 2007 Got bus to wanganui to stay with the family.had a good old catch up ay Brian & Margarets & had a nosy at Brian's "toys' - a modified off road suzuki 4X4 & a quad bike. Gaz got excited at the promise of being able to play on them! We're staying at linda & russels (Gt. aunt & uncle) & they really do live in the most amazing place - r.rural area with hardly anything around, have their own cows & the friendlies...

QUEENSTOWN CTD The big day was finally here- Nevis bungee jump, all 134m of it lay before me! But first- After a 20 quid bet with Joe that I wouldnt jump in the freezing cold lake with all the locals as part of the Winterfest, I packed my towel and headed down to the lake. Thankfully the Party in the Bay was cancelled due to the weather (these Kiwis really are soft) so my bits were saved the shock. After that lucky escpae it was crunch time.Did I have the bal...

SUNDAY 17TH JUNE - SUNDAY 24TH JUNE 2007 SUNDAY - Had a wander around Queenstown which is a lot samller than we anticipated. Planned on walking up the mountain to go on the Luge but the ride was closed for maintenance so we passed. Met up with Amy & Joe (who we met on a trip in Oz)and drank in our hostel just catching up really. They've started snowboarding & have talked us into it so we're gonna give it a go later in the week. Gaz & joe hit town wit...

WEDNESDAY 13TH JUNE TO SAT 16TH JUNE Arrived in Wanaka and Kym surprised me with 22 balloons, a birthday cake and treated me to some fancy food. (she knows me so well!) I had my skydive the next morning so against all expectations I took it easy and only had a few birthday drinks. Did the 60 second free-fall, 15,000 feet skydive over lake wanaka and the mountains and got to see MT Cook from a distant. Although I still it enjoyed it wasnt as good a the one i did...