SO ! the Next day went out and about town, watched a movie at home and had a nice home cooked meal with livs paretns who send their love to all! On firday we got our firtst kiwi bust ot the bay of islands and had a lovley time in the rain! cycled to the supermarket and came out to torrential rain so cycled back unable to see but laughing all the way! hot showers are so well recieved in these circumstances! then yesterday we got the bikes again and pootled along to treaty house which has big maouri significance and looked around there, and once again cycled back in the rain, drenched! had some good meals there! today weve come back to auckland and are staying in a hostel which if rumours are true, has a spa on the roof (we went looking later, and found out it did, with the most spectacular views over the city!) After we checked out the spa pool we headed further into the city to see what we could possibly find, we decided to go up the Sky Tower, even though it was night we could still see the most spectacular views, 360 degrees, of windows, they even had glass pannels so you could see 194metres to the ground.  After we tried to go into the casino, but unfortunatly they would let Liv in because she didn't look over 20 and also because i was wearing flip flops, argh well......it was worth a try! In the end we poodled back to the hostel and chilled out for a bit. We're getting a bus first thing tommoro morning so wont get a chance to actually use it unfortunatly! so tomorrow we start our trip around New Zealnd with fi! coming back to auckand on the 2nd to see more of liv! its all very exciting!

so a massive thanks again for my birthday mesages, and there have been photo cd problems which are being fixed and so ull be getitng photos asap! we are trying! love to absolutely everyone! miss u all lots xxxxxxxxx