Kia Ora from New Zealand! We have had a brilliant 3 weeks back visiting this country, seeing some new places and some we already know. It's almost 5 years since we last visited. We flew into Auckland from Fiji and what a drop in temperature, went from 30 degrees+ to 18! had to get our jumpers out. It has since warmed up a little though as it is springtime here and summer is just round the corner. We hired a car to explore the far north above Auckland. We had he...

Well hello everyone after so long! Since we last wrote from Seattle we have done so much and not had chance to do a blog! Therefore we will try to condense all our news into this one! From Seattle we went to Portland, Oregon. Spent a few days here but didn't do a lot. It's the beer capital of the USA though so we sampled a few at the many brewpubs they have there, Dad you would've loved it! We also did a day trip to visit Mt St Helens Volcano which is back over ...