Christmas and New Year have been and gone, and i haven't written in this thing for ages!! We had a good time here, the weather was good (apart from on Christmas Day)! On Christmas Day we got up, had sausages on the barbie for breakfast, then went out for a surf. Our Canadian friends and their family came round for Christmas dinner (another bbq) and we went out for another surf! On New Years, we had some friends round, then went down to the beach for the cou...

We've now been living in our new place for 2 weeks, and it's totally awesome! The people we are sharing with are from Brazil and Chile, and they are all really nice. We've been going to the beach at the weekends (even though it's not really hot enough yet!) last weekend I climbed the mount, Jack didn't want to so i went myself! It took 30 minutes to get up there, and it was really really steep I was so glad when I got to the top - it was worth it though, the v...

So we have decided to move to Mount Maunganui because it's closer to the beach - we actually moved a bit quicker than expected! We gave 2 weeks notice to our flatmate last Friday as we felt bad about moving out, but really wanted to live by the beach. A few days later she sent us a text that she was also moving out and wanted us out by the weekend so she can sell furniture?!?! So much for us being nice and giving notice! We had 2 days to organise ourselves, b...