Happy new year all!

Well what a way to end 2011! nye i arrived at chapmans house had a barbie to line our stomachs for the drinking sesh that was due to commence had a shower and got ready, chapmans housemate mark had 2 frieds coming to stay i didnt know who and yurned out to be a girl i know from swindon which was very strange had a drink and got a taxi down to the harbour was a lovely night had a few drinks before the boat arrived and we had been uprgraded to a different boat for no extra cost which was nice so it was myself wells, kev dubber, chapman and mark jamies housemate, started drinking had the 9pm fireworks which were awesome then had a bit of a dance drank sooo much and fireworks at new year had a countdown from 90 and went on for 12 mins were beyond words! we got back to the harbour about 1am and went to the casino my back had gone into spasm so i couldnt stand up straight somehow i still got in to the casino me and wells headed back to chapmans about 3am which took a while as i was walking sidewards wells named me the crab!

Next day we got up and went straight to the local we werent that hung over tbh, drank pretty much all day there was about 8n or 9 nine swindon people there , ext day was in melbourne was soooooooo hot chilled on the beach met 2 girls 1 from scotland and 1 from london that night we went out in the hostel bar and went to a club called cushion got in about 4am, next day weather wasnt very good so went into melbourne centre had a walk round went on the tram round the city and i left for the airport about 2pm, flew to auckland at 6pm that night, arrived in auckland about 11.30pm and got the bus to the hostel and checked in and was up at 6am to get the bus to bay of islands at the top of new zealand, auckland was freezing arrived in the bay of islands about midday and was nice and warm so headed of to the beach, early night that night, next day went to the beach again with a scottish lad from my dorm had a few drinks in the dorm and went to the hostel bar, yesterdsy weather was cold and raining and really windy so stayed in the tele room and watched films all day last night we went the hostel bar again and for a games of pool im getting quite good since ive been a traveller, nothing better to do! today check out was 10am so ichecked out and went and got bacck into bed because they dont change the sheets til about midday got up showered and had lunch cooked for me by 2 lads in y dorm, i got the bus down to whangarei where im staying with my dads cousins daughter Laura who i havent seen in about 16 years shes married to a kiwi guy called Brook, she has 2 little kids Layla whos nearly 3 and Josh whos 6 months so ive been cooing after him all evening had a nice chicken curry for dinner and just chatting about family, tomorrow im going out fishing which could be fun!

Hope you are all well!

Love you and miss u all lots!

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