We've borrowed some ski trousers which are nice and warm and give a tiny bit more protection for the copious amount of times we're due to fall on our asses! Not being the typical snowboarding freaks we didn't get up the mountain until gone 12 (most people are up there by 9am) we had only planned on getting the snowboards and teaching ourselves but as it turned out there were some really good deals for beginners which included your board rental, lesson and lift pa...

We got hold of Rene on his birthday and have joined him in Methven which is about 1.5hrs from Christchurch, and a nice comfortable drive in our new car! Methven is the village at the bottom of Mount Hutt which is the main mountain to ski/snowboard close to Christchurch during the winter months. It's bloody cold here so we're chuffed to have our new coats and jeans to keep us warm! We had a few drinks with Rene for his birthday and have arranged to go up the moun...

We had a few hiccups to overcome before boarding the plane to New Zealand. We hadn't printed off our visas, this shouldn't have been a problem but when the staff at the airport kept giving us conflicting answers as to where we could print them off (as ever I got quite panicky and Steve told me to pack it in) after a while we overcame the hic and managed to check in. Next stop was changing some money and Travelex wanted $10 commission and then gave us a $10 off vo...

The van has now gone to it's new owners and Steve and I are now a little better off and once again homeless. Our work visas have also come through so we fly out to New Zealand at 5.15pm today (very excited!). Much to Steve's annoyance we DO need to go shopping for warmer clothes, he does especially, i don't think one jumper is going to cut it for a New Zealand winter of snow, Rain and cold! You all know what we're like but i'll try to update a bit more frequen...

Judgment day for our vans!! I felt so sick all the time, I should really be used to this by now, if it's going to happen it will happen to this van of ours!! Someone must be wanting to give us a break as we passed there were a few things but nothing major, thank you, thank you, thank you! Moments later we got a call for a viewing, 2hrs later we had a buyer!!! At this moment in time I'm freezing me ass off in the van having cleaned and washed everything today wi...