We had a cool night last night, stayed in this hostel in the middle of nowhere, this guy called Les runs it and he is about 80 years old - but soooo funny! We had a 'dress up' night and were all given black & white bin bags and were told to get creative. As you can see from the pics, me and Caroline looked very fetching in our bin bag dresses! We had a group photo with everyone from the bus, which was cool, then we all got very drunk! We are now at Franz ...

Hey all, not much to report but we thought we would touch base!! we are now in the South Island currently in Westport. We stopped off in Nelson on the way at a really nice hostel, more like a bar with rooms - really quaint. Alot has been closed the last few days because of Easter. Westport is quite a ghost town, but we managed to buy ourselves some easter eggs and we're planning an early night with our pj's on gorging on chocolate - nice! Hope you all have a...

Hey all, we are in Wellington now, the capital of New Zealand. The weather is lovely, we spent the afternoon wandered around the many shops, bars and cafes. Tonight we are going out for Indian with a couple of other girls who are on our bus. Its only an overnight stop here before we catch the ferry in the morning to head over to South Island. Yesterday was pretty cool, although it involved alot of travelling, we did stop off at his waterfall and both me and C...

Oh my god!!!! The skydive was amazing!! Was absolutely crapping myself as we were getting strapped in and on the plane. Its a tiny plane and I had to keep checking with my guy that I was strapped in properly - as you do! I went up to 15,000ft, so high that we had to wear oxygen masks in the plane. As your going further and further up your heart is in your throat and I was the last one out so I got to watch two other people go first. Then it was my turn, sat...

We had an excellent time last night at the Maori Experience - well worth the money! It all started when we got picked up, on the bus the driver told us all the history and how the Maori people left to go to New Zealand, so we all had to pretend we were Mauri people and sail the boat (even though it was a bus!) One of the guys had to volunteer to be our chief and when we got there he had to challenge the Maori people by standing there and keeping eye contact whil...