So arrived here Fri afternoon after driving up from Rotorua where I managed to spill a cup of soup in the car all over me.... burnt like hell ha ha. I wanted to go ice skating that afternoon for a laugh so spent ages trying to find the rink to after an hour or so finally find it for it to be closed WHOOPS! That night we walked down to the harbour & then went up the sky tower... was v.pretty seeing Auckland & surrounds by night. Yesterday walked round the shops & ...

I loved it here, def one of my fav places in nz. stayed a total of 5nts here, only downer is it totally stinks from the volcanic going on's!! Finally managed to go White water rafting whilst here & had the best time ever was so cool & scary at the same time. Eilish & me went hoping there would be other girls instead we got stuck with 18 members of the army GREAT. Anyhows once again the guide picked on me & stuck me at the back of the raft with him where I could o...

We had a flying visit here last wend as we got tix to see the rugby. We watched All Blacks v Ireland ( 2 peeps I'm travelling with are Irish..) Well it poured with rain the whole time & us being travellers paid for the uncovered seats, so got totally soaked... my jeans were like cardboard!! We made the most of it though & had a fab v.drunken time, all the kiwi's were really nice to us although laughing at us as Ireland lost. We then got taken out by the kiwi guy ...

Spent a night here then the following day we were booked in for Tubing. This was such a cool day, basically we had to drive out to this warehouse way up in the mountains where we all got changed into wet suits, hard hats & welly boots then we had to walk to the entrance of a cave... The weather was so bad & had rained loads so whilst walking to the cave Eilish & me spent most of our time on our backsides as kept slipping over ha ha. When at the cave we had to go ...

Well thanks to Rachels bro Paul I had 3 wonderful nights here in a house after not being in one for 4months & had a lovely double bed plus home cooked yummy food, when it came to leaving I could have cried or easily got on a plane back home ha ha. We had to get a ferry across from the South island which was a tad rough well thats an under statement really but thankfully I wasn't ill!! The weather was stormy for the 1st day so went to the Te Papa museum which was ...