We well and truly pampered our aching bones in the spa before ending up to the bar for a few pints.The following day we made our way to Auckland, where us girlie's participated in some much needed retail therapy before hitting the town. Lets just say we made the most of the cheap drinks and fascinated locals with our tropical way of speaking. We excited a couple of girls by saying we had come up from the South Island but when they heard we were actually from Engl...

So the beginning of our extreme week of action started in Taupo. We bundled ourselves into the back of a limo, which had picked us up and took us to the airfield, where for some unknown reason we had all thought it would be a good idea, in the words of Dave "to throw ourselves out of a plane with only 1/2 of a fairly large bra to get us down!" However, it wasn't long before we had been kitted out in an amazingly sexy outfit (little did we know these out...

We woke up to find our luck with the weather had finally turned against us and as a result we were unable to go whale watching. The day was spent wondering around the non existent town in the rain before heading back to the hostel for a marathon DVD day. By late evening my brain had finally turned to mush, however, the others still managed to squeeze in another film! The following day we woke with the slight hope we might be able to go whale watching, but again, ...

Westport was just a stop over on our way to Nelson, so there wasn't all that much to do there! We watched the sun set at the lighthouse, before going out for a slap up meal. The hostel we stayed in was really nice, so we spent the evening watching films in front of a log fire, playing with the hostel cat! The following day we drove to Nelson, stopping at Nelson lakes which were beautiful, even if the sand flies ate us alive! Nelson is a fairly small town, but we ...

Our next day in Queenstown started early. We were on the road to Milford sound at 7:30am to make the 5 hour journey to our cruise. Our cruise took us around Milford sound for just over 2 hours, where we were taken right out to the Tasman sea, exploring the coves and waterfalls on the way. We were lucky enough not to get any rain in a place which gets over 7m a year!! This also meant we were able to see several sea lions playing in the sea and sat on rocks and on ...