15th December 2010 - Arrived in Melbourne - 4 hour flight from Auckland, New Zealand 17th December 2010 - Pint on Punt, Windsor, Melbourne Wow!! Were finally here in Australia - cant say the first sight of where were staying is what we were expecting! Were just outside of the city centre, about 10 minutes tram away. Our first day we spent walking around and seeing what was around.We walked through some pretty run down streets that didn'tlook like sunny, pre...

Friday 26th November - Adelphi Lodge, Kaikoura Whoops - kind of fallen behind on our blog! Sorry!! J Okay so we stayed in Franz Josef village for 2 nights and we did the Franz Josef Glacier on our 2nd day.The day we arrived the weather was gorgeous and sunny and then the following morning when we woke to do our climb, it was pouuuring with rain. We were not happy. We paid a lot of money to do this all day trip and we thought the rain would make it less enjo...

Saturday 13th November - Rain Forest Retreat, Franz Josef So we arrived in Wellington and spent 3 nights at Base. Wellington was okay, pretty good for going out drinking - although we didn't quite make it out to many bars as we all got too drunk on our first night there! Our first day in Wellington was spent going to the Te Papa Museum. Can't say it's been the most exciting part of our trip, but we did enjoy some parts - like seeing a real ........ Our 2nd ...

Friday 5th November - River Valley Adventure Lodge, River Valley We didn't end up going white water rafting, were going to wait until we head back up the island our way back or do in the south island. The weather is pretty rubbish today (cold and raining) so we've stayed at the lodge with a few others and made a fire to cosy round and roast marshmallows - so thought we'd catch up on our blog. The boys of course had great pleasure in making the fire!! Yeste...

Wednesday 3rd November - Base, Taupo (Matt's 1st blog!!! ............About bloody time) We left Waitomo this morning at 10!!! Happy for a lay in!! We then had a 2 hour journey through the back roads to Taupo and Tongariro National Park this is where the filming of Lord of the Rings was set in the mountains of Na-ru-hoe-e (Mount Doom). As soon as we arrived in Taupo we were picked up by the skydiving minibus!! By this time i was s***ting myself just by the ...