We're alive and home!! This is our last blog entry - well for this trip anyway!! We had a lovely couple of weeks in Fiji. We did a island hopping trip. We visted Bounty, Wayalailai, Korovu, Coral View, Mantaray and Beachcomber. We then went to LA and San Francisco. Rode over the Golden Gate Bridge, went to Alcatraz, had a wine tour in the Napa Valley and lots of shopping!! Nice to see everyone at home. To the people we haven't seen yet - hope to catch up...

Hello everyone!! We are still alive!! Sorry we haven't been on the blog for ages but we have been living it up in Queenstown!! We had the most amazing time. We went jetboating, snowboarding and visited Milford Sound. Rachael and Jord also celebrated their Birthday's here. We hired a car for a few days and went to Dunedin and Lake Tekapo. We visted the Cadbury Factory, Mt Cook and used the outdoor spa. We are now in Christchurch, it's a lovely city. We l...

Yesterday (Thur) we went to Puzzling World. This was fun!! We got lost in the maze and then went in some illusion rooms. Last night we stayed in!! Our first night in in Wanaka!! Still felt tired this morning. Today we treated ourselves to a coffee and banana cupcake!

Only have ten minutes so a quick one - Tue 3rd - Left Greymouth arrived Franz Josef. Lovely small town with a big glacier. Booked our hike. Wed 4th - We did our full day glacier hike. We got kitted up with our crampons!! It was really fun, we had to squeeze through narrow gaps and small holes. The ice was so blue! We went to the glacier hot pools in the evening to rest our legs! Thur 5th - We went out walking again!! Oh our legs ached!! The scenery was...

Yesterday (Sunday) the weather was awful, we spent our last day in Nelson inside! We did manage to pop out to do some food shopping and book a bus but that's it. Today (Monday) we left Nelson on the Magic Bus. We stopped at the Pancake Rocks and some lovely beaches but are now in Greymouth. We have a brewery tour planned for tonight and then an early start in the morning to get to Franz Joseph.