27th February 2010 Arrived in Auckland 1 hour before mom and dad as we were on different flights. We waited in the airport for them and then we all waited for Micky Dunnion to collect us. He took us to his home in Dairy Flats, north of Auckland admiring the beautiful views on the way. The dunnion family were lovely and out us up in thier caravans for 2 nights. We were spoilt with breakfast and dinner and entertained by the 4 children. They live on avery high ...

26th February 2010 (i got the dates wrong on the last blog, serves me right for backtracking so much. We flew to NZ on the 24th February!) Our adventure begins......... we drove to Paihia and stayed for 2 nights in a motel (which in NZ is a self contained apartment) The first night, dad took us to a 5* hotel for dinner where we had an amazing meal and even Neil managed to eat some of it too :) On the second night the boys went to play pool while me and mom we...

Form the worst 3 1/2 weeks where Neil thought he would have to send me home to a breath of freash air. Cowes couldnt have been more than we what we wanted. A small seaside town, everything in walking distance and gorgeous weather! We were greeted by Kate at amaroo park and showed to our dorm room. We were sharing with Irena and Christian, a couple form Germany. Kate told us to enjoy our day and meet in the kitchen at 6pm for dinner. At this point we still thou...

The toughest 3 1/2 weeks of our travels were in Melbourne and although we were here for so long we didnt really see too much or do too much for 2 reasons. The first reason was that we knew mom and dad would be meeting us here and we would be ssing things with them and second because we needed to stop spending or earn money. It was a shame as this was a lovely city and infact one of our favourites. We spent most of the time in the hostel and using the internet t...

We arrived in Sydney safely and made it to the YHA central hostel. New building and very impressive especially when you need a key card to enter the bathrooms!! Due to the change of plan and short amount of time between here and Brisbane, we weren't able to get a dorm room so had a twin room for 2 nights. The price was ridiculous as the "twin" room was actually a bunkbed. Oh well, it was all they had available. Day 1: we walked to Darling Harbour and...