Sunday 20th May 2007 Journal brought to you by Sophie Today we arrived in the activity centre of New Zealand - a town known as Queenstown. The drive from Wanaka was fairly smooth and in mid afternoon we stopped off at the first ever bungee site in New Zealand so that some of the people on the bus could do one. Ricky and Dan were doing their first one ever and were absolutely terrified. Luckily we were all there to cheer them on and they were brilliant. Ricky is...

Saturday 19th May Journal entry brought to you by Tami (who LOVES New Zealand SO much she doens't think she'll be able to leave) Today was a brilliant day (-: Mike and I woke up really early to go and do our skydive over the Fox Glacier. It was about a 30 minute drive to get to the place, and I was really tired and a bit grouchy, and was just hoping the clouds up above would clear before we went up. Mike and I, having both skydived before, were first up, but u...

Friday 18th May 2007Journal brought to you by Sophie, who is very cold.This morning we had to get up fairly early as we were going on a full day hike on the Franz Josef glacier. We spent the first two hours of the day getting kitted up for the walk. I was wearing about 50 billion layers as I didn't want to freeze. We were given fetching mittens, huge boots that we had to attach ice spikes to as soon as we got on the glacier, some big woollen socks, a warm fle...

Thursday 17th May Journal entry brought to you by Tami (just glad to be alive) Today was a fantastic, albeit slightly traumatising day. We left Mahinapua early in the morning and drove to the Pukekura Bushman centre for breakfast. There was a small museum there, so Sophie, Ricky and I decided to check it out. It was all going fine, until I decided to look for the ginormous wild boar that lived there. There was a large platform outside, and a sign that said 'Onl...

Wednesday 16th May 2007Journal brought to you by Sophie Today was a very good day all thanks to the wonders of Kiwi Experience.. We would never have been able to do anything like this if we hadn't of joined the bus.  These past few weeks have been some of the greatest fun I have ever had.  All the people are so lovely, our driver Jimmy is an absolute legend and knows what he is talking about and the sights we have seen are out of this world.  I am run...