It Hello from me. GREAT.rnrnwell I'm in New Zealand, and its cold..... very very cold. shopping for woolly jumpers and warm gloves has been done, ITS STILL COLD.rnrnits been a bit mental last few days, but i'll get to that.rnrnArrived in Auckland, stayed on the outer bit, first impressions where it looked like south of England! but really liked Auckland, sweet city really.rnrnAnyway, we picked up our camper van (its a wicked van) witch has Astro boy spray painted on both sides and written on the back is "im going to outer space....... first stop Uranus" little old ladys love that when they are stuck behind us.rnWe started off driving round the corormandel peninsula, wicked coastal windy roads, great views and all that, just a nightmare to drive round (so im told as i dont drive... oops) staying in crappy little " one horse" towns until we had our 1st taste of how nice the Kiwi's are! ...... driving round looking for campsites we found they where all closed in this one town, but this lady pulls up to us while we are scratching our heads out side the closed camp grounds, she offers us to stay in her front garden, her, her husband and their mate welcomed us in, cooked us dinner (fish curry....... wasn't looking forward to it after the whole crapping myself for 4 months thing) but it was well nice as where they.rnAfter that we went to the Hot Beach, you have to dig a little hole in the beach and HOT water comes up in to it, its so hot i burnt my ass and stole someone Else's hole in the end HA!rnrnafter all that fun we drove over to a gold mining town to visit my mum's sister ( that would be my aunt ay!) never meet her before and didnt know a great deal about her, but she was nice, meet some of my cuz's to, never meet them before aswell.... being that they live the other side of the world.rnrnwe drove to a place, the place of fart smelling air. this place was just like the bog of eternal stench at times, Rotarua was a town built in one of NZ biggest thermal arias, meeting you get wicked geezers (or geysers... kiwi losers say it wrong) and hot bubbling mud pools and steaming lakes. they all rock. what dont rock is the stench they omit.rnrnafter that we headed down to taupo for some FUN! Joel said this place was cool, Joel (for once) was right!rnmeet some cool guys found some free camp grounds, and beat the living daylights out of my adrenalin glands, i can still feel them pulse!rnday before yesterday we did rock and ropes, see photos. but that made me buzz hard, then sleep hard!rnyesterday, started as a normal day, cold but nice, calm cup of tea in town, maybe there was a little piece of cake next to it, birds where singing, oh and i fell out of a bl00dy aeroplane at 12,000ft, free falled (falled? is that a word....) 8,000 ft in 45 seconds at a average speed of 120MPH, before opening the shoot at 4,000 ft for our slow decent.rnrnTHAT WAS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER DONE IN MY LIFE TO THSI DATE! WOOOOOOOOOW. Mind blowing head mess. (not pant mess) after being given one thing to rembere by my tandem master, witch was head back arch my back as i dangle my leggs out of the plain, i forgot all this.... being as i could see my life woooshing past me, so as we fell, he yanked my head back, making us tumble and spin wildly for a few seconds. free fall was nutts, chipping down fast and then though clouds, was you come though those you just see the world comming closer! then the shoot opens and you float liek a bird, with the most unreal sense of inner peace, something i never felt before... inner what?rnrnso that night we all parked up in a car park and got very drunk......rnrnTHE END (out of Internet time....just in time hahahaharn