This evening we had a party at the 'pop pub'. The theme was bad taste so on the way to the hostel we stopped off in grey mouth to get our outfits. It was such a great funny evening! We all enjoyed a steak meal together which was delicious! The group has really formed into a family, I feel very lucky to have met so many great people!

Today we see off for Westport. It was a beautiful drive. Westport was a funny town, as our driver explained 'it's full of inbreds' I found them to be very friendly! This evening we all had dinner together (about 10 of us), mats was head chef and cooked a curry! Yummy! It was a very chilled out evening watching many chic flicks which the boys were not so impressed with!

Yesterday we arrived in Kaiteriteri which again is beautiful. Our hostel was right on the beach! After exploring the beaches we joined in with a bar quiz and came 2nd which I think we were all very shocked by! We were quite relieved that we didnt win as the prize was a 50 dollar bar tab and I think we were all enjoying an evening sober! This morning we went on a water taxi ride to anchorage beach where we were able to do a nice walk in the Abel Tasman national pa...

So today we left Taupo and headed for River Valley. The hostel was in the middle of nowhere, the dorm had 4 bunk beds which slept 32 people which was such a funny experience to be going to sleep so close to the people next to you! River valley was such a beautiful remote place. That afternoon we went horse trekking which was great fun! The horses weren't ridden in bits so I had to get used to a completely different way of riding, and we were going up steep hills....

Today we left river valley and headed to Wellington. We were lucky that we got to go horse trekking the day before because from about 10pm the rain came and didn't stop, it even meant that some of the roads had closed on our way to Wellington! We got to Wellington about 2 and headed to Ti Papa museum which was great. They has so many different sections and a huge squid!!