RIGHT! this is a VERY long time coming!! Tiz simmons by the way. the blog about liv and robson and dolphins and tandom bikes is guna have to be skipped because neither of them will write it my mum keeps naggin me to write another blog. usually she says "emilie has done another blog. have you seen it?" or "Emilie has put pictures up, cant wait to here from you"

dam Emilie! showing us up! grrr!

ok. we all met back up in Queenstown after our seperate wanderings and booked a bungy and a kayak tour into doubtful sound. Bungy was 1st and we went with Livs new freind from her festival. they both had hangovers as they had been out the night before. me and matt didnt go out as mean girls was on TV and we couldnt be arsed. Matt jumped 1st and ddint make a sound. he later said this is because he had no idea where he was! Liv went in tandom with her freind Leah and they got dunked under the water and couldnt see well for the rest of the day. i however was not so lucky. i wasnt bothered my it until i reached the edge of teh 43m fall and had nothing but air and a cord on me. after about 30 secs hillarity as they persuaded me to let go of a metal pole on the bridge i had found to keep me safe i for some reason got hiserical at the people who kept touching me. i had to get off because i was threatening the staff and was dangerous! i dont know what came over me. ive decidd i dont like hights and im guna spend the money driving a monster truck to regain some manness! *hanging my head in shame*

then we went to Te Anau to start our 2 day kayak tour of Doubtful sound. it took ages to reach doubtful sound accross Lake manapoiri and a road that is only there because of a hydroeletric plant. finally we set off into the sound. Matt was outraged to decover that seen as it was carved out by a glacer and then filled with water it was infact doubtful Fjord and not doubtful sound :p Matt was looking forward to scenery carved out by a river. oh well. the pod of bottlenose dolphins that where swimming all around us on the second day made up for this outrage though as it was AMAZING! All of our group where pretty cool and we went for a meal later that night with them. that really pushed the budget but was cool as now me and matt have been introduced to some kiwi bitter. YAY!

the day after we bought a van..... yes a van! a 1986 1.6 mutubichi L3000. its great exept it doesnt go up hill.

then we went back to Queenstown and met Em and went for a night on the town! hurra! now ive got to digress to Aus and Lennox head near Byron bay where we met a dude called pete from Bournmouth and we spent may a happy night with him and others around there. anyhoo he left there the day we did and said he had a vibe we would meet up in NZ. Yes i thought.... crackpot. anyhoo he was at the bar! huray we had a shindig with him and his mates.

the next day we went up and did Luging with Em. (2nd time for us but i cba writing about it twice) and it was some good holsome family fun!

the day after that we drove to Milford sound to have a gander. I think ems got some pictures on her site. it was great but im bored of writing so you can just imagine a nice place that i had fun in.

the day after we took em to Christchurch. this was a awsome road trip involving swimming in lake tekapo and me falling asleep in a Greek thinking statue pose. hurra!

then the last 2 days i have been ill so we ddnt do much seen as im the only one who can drive now ems gone. we did howver had a car crash in this time! someone ran in the back of us. lucky that our van had bull bars so noboby in our van or the van itself are remotly hurt. the other car was smashed! this lead us to naming the car MARGRET THATCHER! or madje for short.

kk thats about it for now. sorry we are so crap at this updating thing! tara

xx