SECOND HALF OF TAUPO After all the excitment and rush after the skydive the next few days were slightly more chilled involving a few games of crazy golf, the hole in one challenge, a chilled day at a geo thermal spa (which was free and pretty awesome), some touch rugby and a few beers. Weall decided to stay up on sunday night (NZ time) to watch england france. Slates and guy were being a bit boring and decided that they were going to sleep before the rugby then...

Wed 11th March - Waitomo/Taupo After having a nice chilled evening in waitomo, which is a small little place with a nice hostel. We headed off to taupo stopping on the way to do black water rafting. Black water rafting was pretty awesome we spent about 3 hours 65m underground in these small little caves with a wesuit, a rubber ring and a head torch. Was very cool down there, with all the stalecmites and glow worms hanging down from the ceiling, the water though ...

Saturday 7th March - Auckland Had one last day in auckland after coming back from the bay of islands. We luckily happened to be in auckland on a saturday which is auckland blues rugby day. We picked up some cheap tickets off the internet and headed down for a lads day at the rugby. Me and guy dressed up in what the others felt was a rather gay outfit but i thought was pretty funny. A mixture of crazy rugby shorts, beaters, cowboy hats and sweat bands! Anyways we...

Just arrived in the North tip of new zealand, called the bay of islands. The weather isn't very nice up here it has been raining and very windy all day but off on some jet boat tour tomorrow which is apparently meant to be good. Slater, guy, will and charlie have all tried to dye their hair blonde and its gone horribly wrong so i m travelling with a bunch of idiots!! Staying in a really cool hostel called phi phi patch, we ve managed to get our own room for 8 of ...

First Day After arriving in auckland after a very long trip and luckily meeting slates, guy, sam, will, charlie and ed in LA airport and almost losing my passport and phone in the first restaurant i went into i managed to get to new zealand safely. Due to almost losing my passport and phone i have been made to wear the tour poncho (this is a black t shirt saying GAY in big capital white letters making it stand out more than anything). People have been staring a...