Well after it rained all night we were up early and on the road. We drove and drove till we saw steam coming out the ground! At first I didn't know what it was!!!! As we were driving we saw a sign for Waitakei Thermal Valley. So we thought we'd better investigate. And investigate we did. We walked through the bush after pushing our way through the Alpacas (all TWO of them), and came across some amazing thermal water pools ,the ground was even hot and clay like. ...

We are driving north to the wine reigon. We visited a winery called Yealands and watched a video and found out about Peter yealand and his wine. Mum and dad tasted and bought some wine to drink in the van. As we were driving we saw all the grapes on the vines. We drove through Blenheim for lunch and went to a really fancy restaurant called McDonalds! Afterwards we went to cloudy bay vineyard. Eli and I found a rugby ball, so we kicked it around for a bit. The ...

We are in Akaroa witch is a little french town just south of Christchurch. It was our first night in the van witch was nice. One day we went to a beach, but on the way there we had to go through a farm and a paddock of cows so they were all crowding around the car looking at us like hunter does when he wants to play. One even took a couple of backwards steps so we couldn't go anywhere! On the way back we had go through sheep that were on the road so we beepe...

We went for our first long drive in the van to kaikoura. The first night we camped in between the railway track and the cemetery and we were there for 2 minutes and Eli had already seen a seal called flippy and we also THOUGHT we saw whale but it was only a log and in the morning it was washed up. Today we are in town and it's pouring down with rain! We bought some new ugg boots from the woolshed. Mine are the same size as mums! It is so wet we have to run back ...

Well after a late night watching the rugby we were up early to get to the trans scenic train station. Luckily it was quite close to gary's work, so he dropped us there. The train took 4 and a half hours and there were fifteen tunnels!! When we got to the motel it had a huge playground but it was raining so mum said not to get wet. So we went straight outside and played for hours in the rain and got soaked! It was only then that I realized that I only had one pai...