roseanne (the sister) is perfectly lovely and took us to picton where we walked some of the queen _____ track (got a boat out, walked a bit, then got a boat back) and then took us to visit some of her family. her daught christie is 4 weeks off her first baby! blemhiem is in marlburough and that is full of vineyards and wineries going on for miles!!

Got a coach to belnheim today to visit emmas uncles sister (from when her grandparents went to live in nz) roseanne picked us up from teh bus sattion and took us home via a lovely little park that was all lit up in coloured lights so it looked like some kind of fairy wonderland. was odd to be in a home again. we had our own rooms, and bathrooms. you could get changed in your rooms and not in teh tiolet. we also were sleeping in roomson our own for the first time ...