3 days in Sydney 5th-8th November We spent our first day in Thornleigh where Janet our host lives and Louise is staying. We had homemade pizza's for lunch and took Johnny to Dog Beach. Had homemade Thai for dinner and met Janet's other lodgers Barbara a lovely 65 year old lady, Zach Aussie who was a chatty funny butcher and Zach Chinese who was quiet and not home a lot. Janet was the most amazing host and even spent the night at her boyfriend Tim's so we could ...

Busy last days in Auckland We made the most of our time left in Auckland. It was jam packed. We had a Japanese dinner with J and Laura and walked around Auckland at night. Thursday we went on a day trip to Devonport, a ferry ride ($11 return) away and on the peninsula. It was a quaint town/village with beautiful huge houses. It was a beautiful day so we walked up Mt Victoria. The views were lovely and we met a local who advised us to go to Cornwall Park while ...

3 days in Wellington On the boat ride from Picton to Wellington we found out it was J's birthday. He turned 25 (In Korea 26) and he wasn't going to mention it. I was in shock so we planned a night out with Laura Murch (a new bud) and the drivers for J's bday and a goodbye drink to the drivers. So our first night in Wellington we bought J a cake and card, had dinner and met him for a basement good time lol! Base bars are always shocking and look like student bars...

Swimming with Dolphins We arrived in Kaikoura after daying goodbye to our NZ family and a long day on the bus from Queenstown. We had some beautiful stops one being a view of Mt Cook where we had the most beautiful weather. The sky was clear with a perfect view of the snowy topped Mt Cook and the sea was turquoise! Marvellous! We had to switch buses just outside Christchurch and it was the first time we were on the bus without Lauren. A driver called Ben took ...

Milford Sound We had to be ready for the coach at 7:30. I woke up an hour early so I could FaceTime home but Niall was on his way to football. We stopped off to pick up people from different hostels and the people who had done the bottom bus and J was one of them. We were all do happy to see him! We had to be at Milford Sound to catch the 13:30 boat. It was a long journey but very scenic. We stopped off in a town for half an hour were we all bought a pie. J ...