Woke up early to call home before they went off to bed. After some breakfast we went for a walk around the city, starting with the shops down Queen Street. We went to the Waterfront before on to the Auckland Sky Tower. It is $25 to go up though which we felt was a bit pricey so didn't do that. We went out to Parnell Street too, a much posher area! Kerry insisted on buying us lunch so we all had a sarnie whilst sitting in the sunshine. When we got back to the ho...

We left Rotarua on our last kiwi bus journey that was taking us through to Auckland. We stopped for lunch in Mata-Mata, the town that Hobitan was set in! This morning we bumped into a familiar face, Kerry who we briefly met in Surfers Paradise but was then on our bus for all of the South Island. Whilst catching up on the bus we realised we fly into LA on the same date and as everyone has said the best way to see LA is with a hire car we have decided to all hire...