We didn't wake up as late as we thought we would. Had a really good sleep though. The beds were really comfy. Think I could've slept on anything last night though. We took our time getting up, then made breakfast and watched a little bit of TV with a coffee in the lounge. We had to spend quite a lot of time planning today for our final 10 weeks. We worked out how long we want to spend in New Zealand and then worked out our time in the USA. We don't want to go b...

5am our alarm went off! Way too early. But we had a bus picking us up at 5.40am to take us to the mountains. Too early for breakfast, so just made sure we had enough food packed for later. We arrived at the start of the Tongariro Alpine Crossing at about 7.30am and set off on our 8 hour hike up through the mountains! There were loads of people doing the hike. It's supposed to be rated as one of the best walks in the world. A lot of this area was used in the Lor...