Back in Wellington at Fraser and Jo's house. We had a great night catching up at the pub yesterday, there will be pics! We've completed our trip through the south island and the highlights was, the wine tasting in Marlborough, The Fergburger in Queenstown and the general scenery that's just breathtaking! Gonna stay here until tomorrow and then try and make it up to lake Taupo where hopefully we'll be doing the skydive!! Can't wait! Actually i'm a bit nervous, but who wouldn't be jumping out of an airplane at 12000 ft! The weather here yesterday was just horrible, windy and raining! We arrived with the ferry at 9am and went to the national museum, te papa. It was good fun and even Jason enjoyed it. Today we're just taking it easy catching up with a bit of chores we need to sort out. We've booked our accommodation in cook islands, Backpackers international in rarotonga so that feels good and finally managed to get the photos uploaded.

We're happy to hear the presents has arrived in Sidmouth! Should only be a few days to a week until they arrive in Sweden too then... Let me know when they do.

Hollie, sorry to hear you didn't get the txt we did send you on your birthday... We sent it from our nz number but that shouldn't matter, might be delayed. But happy birthday and we hope you had a great day! What did you do to celebrate??

To Viv, Thank you for the book, i'm really going through it and really liking it!

Richard: Good to hear you've got a good winter in the states! We can't wait to be there, will have to invest in a few warmer clothes by the sounds of things!:) We arrive in LA on the 21st of feb. Our itinerary is posted on the blog. We want to find out the name of the site that want people to drive their cars and vans from A to B and all you pay for is the petrol, maybe you can help?? In australia it's called Standbyvans.co.au.

That'll be all for now. Take care until next time and keep reading and writing! xxxxxxx