19/03/09Fairly decent night, only woke up a few times as Coops this time kept rolling on to my side of the bed. We got up and drove to the Aifields where we went in to a Sky Dive shop to ask about prices for tomorrow. We walked in to the first place and as we asked about the price I started to smell something seriously rank, when we'd finished asking I asked if anyone had farted the moment we walked in Helen and Rich said they hadn't. After we had stopped at the ...

18/03/09The alarm went off at 7, I was already awake anyway, but still couldn't be arsed to get up because it was freezing and had been raining on and off for the past few hours. We eventually all got up and drove over to the DOC carpark. We had a bit of a debate on what was best to take with us on the Tongariro Crossing. I ended up taking a spare pair of trousers, a pac-a-mac, sun-cream, 2 apples, 8 museli bars, a carrot, 2 sandwiches and 3 big bottles of water....

15/03/09We woke up at about 9 after a lot of sleep and no one could be arsed to get up other than Pat who seemed to want to drive on to New Plymouth as soon as possible even though we'd planned the day to be a lazy coastal drive ariving in New Plymouth in the afternoon. The girls and I laid in bed, ate junk food, attempted to fix my camera and pissed about for a few hours before we decided to get a move on. We left at about 1130 and stopped off in a few spots on ...

13/03/09We had to be out of the campsite by 10 so we got up had another shower and refilled the water then emptied the waste, I have no idea where all the noodles have been coming from but every time we empty the waste a big ball of noodles interspersed with rice blobs out followed by a load of brown sludgy water before it runs clear, it stinks and looks rank. The weather wasn't the best, intermittent cold rain. We headed off to Hamilton, arrived there at about h...

12/03/09We woke up to a guy knocking on the door, Coops answered it, it was a guy telling us that we had parked illegally overnight and that if we were going to stay another we would have to stay in a campsite. We laid in bed for another few hours before getting up and when we did Burns was in an awful rush to use the toilet but refused to piss in the camper toilet. It was his turn to drive so he was spanking it around all the cliff top corners to get to the bog ...