Need to backtrack a bit here, after the kiwi adventure ended we were back in Auckland.. Me, Anthony & Lauren. We had discovered that Graham & James (guys who were on the bus with us) were also arriving in Auckland that night so met up with them for a causal few drinks, ended up in the famous O'Hagans and said our goodbyes as they were off on they're seperate ways the following morning. Lauren & I were really excited as Kate was re-joining us.. she had...

We were all epically depressed about leaving Queenstown and had a 10 hour drive to Kaikora to suffer. When we arrived we were so happy, Kaikora was really pretty even though there wasn't much going on there. We managed to blah ourselves a room to ourselves with a double bed which was custie and then the three of us (Stingray, Lauren & me) went for a wonder and came back to the room with a lovely fish and chips dinner. We then were really boring and stayed in ...

We arrived into Queenstown to be welcomed by gorgeous sunshine which with the mountains and the river just made it look even more amazing. Before dropping everyone to their hostels we stopped off in a lovely little grassy spot for a massive group picture- a lot harder to take then you would think. All jumping in each other and smiling through the pain of the people crushing you above but the picture turned out looking awesome so it's all good. After everyone pull...

Next day we woke up and at first seemed like it was going to be a normal drive down to Wanaka, we got settled into napping on the way there and that was that. About 40mins into the journey the bus just randomly stopped, so at first we assumed we were at traffic lights or something normal like that..After being stopped for about 10 mins it was clear something was wrong so one of the girls went up the front to investigate. Turns out someone had taken diseal from th...

Franz Josef is AMAZINGGGG! As we were driving towards it, these amazing mountains just slowly started to appear and it was gorgeous. Like, you can't even explain how gorgeous it looks there. We stayed in another really nice little lodge and I was in a 4 bed dorm with Matt, Stacy and Stingray. The town of Franz Josef is really small- you could walk the entire length of it in about 5 minutes and thats not an exaggeration! Anyway, first day we got there we all booke...