12th July 2013 This will come as a shock to you all....we had an early start this morning!!!! We are heading to Queenstown for the weekend for my birthday....yay! Kym woke all of us up at 6 and it wasn't long before we were on the road, although not before we stopped off at McDonald's for a take-away breakfast. From what I saw off the drive it was beautiful (most of the time I was sleeping...it's what I do!) we saw Mt Cook several times as Kym kept screaming tha...

16th May 2013 After a nice lay-in and a Birthday breakfast for Chris's 20th. Kim, Kerry, Stevie and I packed up our day bags and waited for the taxi. Chris packed as the taxi pulled up. Finally we headed off to the airport. After and easy check in, 3 hour 45 mins flight we landed in the Gold Coast, Australia. One expensive taxi ride later the 5 of us arrived at Surfers Paradise. Our room was small, but was right on the seafront, giving us a beautiful view of the...

Quick update. The day has finally arrived, The girls are pleased getting away from Arlen (our landlady), We have managed to find our own house, just behind the Mall. Its perfect for all of us. Chris has moved with us. We have kitted out the house into a man cave, complete with a dart board and mini golf. We are now looking for a pool table for our double garage. There were a few things that we need to to pick up along the way, but came at a bargain. Like to recl...

Our first night in the van was surprisingly comfortable and it was up early again on the friday morning for the drive to Kiakora, this time we took advantage of the views and stopped to take lots of pics. We eventually made it to Kiakoura and kept driving along the coast to Ohau stream walkway and waterfall. This is where the baby seals come when the mummy seals are fishing....there were hudreds of them it was amazing, they were playing, and swimmming up and do...

Another bank holiday...gotta love new zealand....and we decide to borrow Arlens van and have a little road trip. We have an early start (this seems to be a running theme of the blog) have a quick shower and pack up the van...first problem, the petrol tank is empty and the petrol stations may be shut today...akward! Never fear, we found an open station and we are soon on the way until we have to stop for more petrol as Mark thought that $30 would be enough for 7 ...