Winters coming and its starting to get cold on the South Island. We are looking for a new place to live as the girls don't like the landlady coming around every day. going through the bins by night. No much has been going on here. Stevie and I are still working. Missing the Aussie weather. I want to move out there soon. We have booked Chris' Birthday to the Gold Coast and a Skydive which should be fun. We are waiting to the Ski season to start down in Queenst...

Friday 29th March Easter weekend we both had 4 days off so we decided to head to Sydney to catch up with Hannah and John, our friends from back home who now live there. It was an early flight. we were up at 3am for our 6.35 flight, After a caffine kick we jump on the JQ140 flight and headed across the pond. Stevie said the terbulance was quite bad on the way out, I was so tired I slept for most of the 3.30hr flight. I was sitting near the window, as we approach...

Its been a while since we have last up dated our blog. So we are going to give you a summary of the last month. We have both started our jobs which are going well. Stevie is working in Merivale and I am based in Riccarton. About a week after we moved in Jenny and Camile sisters from Columbia also moved in. We have also befriended a guy from northern England called Chris. We celebrated Camile's Birthday on 19th January with a bbq. It was that evening that we felt...

It was an early start, we were on the road again and heading down to Wellington. On route we stopped off at Mount Ngauruhoe which was Mount Doom in movie The Lord of the Rings. We finally reached Wellington by midday. It was a mission to park and when we did find somewhere it was so expensive. We totally forgot to visit WETA studios. Our ferry was not until 2.30am, So we had a lot of time to kill. We wandered around the city. It felt like a city with its high ...

We planned on getting an early start, but ended up laying in. By the time we loaded up the car and cancelled our utilitiesit was coming up to midday. A lot later than we wanted. We finally headed off with the car full to the brim. Luckily the car was an automatic so we could handle the weight. After getting lost a couple of times we were finally on our way. We always wanted to go and see Hobbiton from The Lord of the Rings which is in Matamata. About 2/3hrs so...