Hello everyone,

Thanks for the messages, especially you ash. It's great to hear about your purchase. Sounds like Huckle has been having fun as well. Hope you all liked the pictures. We have got a load more for you to see when we get back, edd has gone a little bit photo crazy! Edd's beard is pretty big now which you'll see when we get back. Yesterday we climbed Mt Nguaruhoe a.k.a Mt Doom in Lord of the Rings. It was awesome, it's an active volcano but luckily it decided not to blow. It was amazing but very tiring, we were scrabbling up loose rocks and pulling ourselves up on big rocks to get to the top. And on the way down we had to kind of slide and walk, or you could run like edd did! That was in Tongariro National Park in the North Island. We're at Taupo by a massive lake. We went swimming in a hot spring today which was absolutely beautiful. It was like sitting in a bath. We're off to Rotorua next to go zorbing. Looking forward to getting home, see you soon

Rosie and edd