Tuesday 5th June Journal entry brought to you by Tami Today Sophie and I walked to the Craters of the Moon, a highly active geothermic area just outside Taupo. We set off bright and early at about 10am. Which is early for us, don't shake your head mother. We had to walk up a major hill to begin with, which was a pain, especially as I appear to have pulled a muscle in my groin (do NOT ask how, I don't even know). We amused ourselves by reminiscing about our ti...

Monday 04th June 2007Journal brought to you by Sophie who actually did some exercise today - shock horror!Well as we have visited Taupo before we haven't actually done anything very exciting at all. We got up...late as usual after having a marathon reading session. I am reading another Jeffrey Archer and I am actually really excited because I have bought two Beverley Harper books who is the female equivilent of Wilbur Smith and you can only get hold of her st...

Sunday 3rd June Journal entry brought to you by Tami (experiencing a lot of de-ja-vu) Caught the bus this morning to Taupo. Stopped at Huka Falls. Again. Checked into Tiki Lodge. Again. Oli and Amos also checked in there as opposed to Urban Retreat, so we got a room with them again, and James. Found out that Roy no longer works at the lodge, which we were quite sad about, as he'd been really sound to us last time we were there, giving us woolie hats and the ...

Friday 11th May Got up fairly early today, considering I was planning on staying in bed all day! Did some laundry (managing to scab some free washing powder in the process!) and then lazed around pretty much all morning. Sophie and I watched The Fast and the Furious, which was pretty cool. We are both now hardcore Vin Diesel fans. We then messed around at the hostel, not doing very much, having food and so on. We then headed out into town at about ...

Thursday 10th May Journal brought to you by a very tired and exhausted Sophie  Guess what time we got up today???  Not as early as the hot air balloon ride but pretty damn close.  Half four in the morning.  Yes half past four in the flipping morning.  I cannot cope with this - it is far too much like hard work.  I am meant to be on holiday for goodness sake!  This is because we were tackling what is known as the Tongariro Crossing.  It h...