Day 28 - 5th Feb - Up at ridiculous o'clock (6.30am) not so good after a night out! Most of the day was spent on the coach driving, these days are pretty boring, we just seem to go to random little places in NZ and get piped at by the tour manager Nathan! Today we stopped off at a random place called Bulls where every shop etc had some name related to bulls ie subway was called Sub-merge-a-bull etc. Helps to pass the time a bit, still most seem quite pointless. ...

Day 27- 4th Feb - Heading to Lake Taupo today, more coach action and bit of a busy day! Me and Vix are going for some action today and doing a rope climbing course activity called ëRock and Ropesí. Basically this was a series of rope courses suspended off the ground about 30ft up! We had a really crazy outdoors guy training us and taking us through what to do, basically he just told us to get on with it if we were scared no sympathy! The look of the cou...

Day 26: up early and straight onto the bus heading to Rotorua. First stop was at the Agrodome which was basically a sheep show, so weird and funny. It was on a farm and had a little talk from a sheepshearer about the different sheep's then he proceeded to shear one in front of us! Then we had a little sheep dog demonstration then back on the bus. We then went to watch some of the others on the tour go zorbing, then busy day continued when we went up a gondola and...

Day 25: up so early and none of us were to pleased as some idiots were skateboarding outside our room until about 3am, but not only that some sort of elephant paraded outside our room at 6am so bit of lack of sleep! Met the tour bus and headed straight for our first stop Waitomo (South of Auckland). Bus has a really weird mix of people on it but haven't really chatted to anyone yet. Afternoon we had a wander around the little town population 50 and caught up with...

Day 24: had a long lie in to recover from Fiji! Spent the day wandering around Auckland and getting our bearings. Had to do some essentials shopping i.e. towels and sun cream (learning from our mistakes), but the day was pretty much spent exploring the city, which is pretty small. Evening consisted of eating a free BBQ at the Hostel (mums are proud as saving money) and catching up with our blogs which I know that I am still seriously behind with! Tomorrow we star...