Hi guys. So today was a pretty relaxed day. We slept in until 8:00am. We took it easy driving around town looking at thermal hot springs and bubbling mud, That yesterday we had to pay for. The museum was fantastic. We didn't quite make it to the roof for a look because you had to go up narrow stairs and there was a lot of work being done. After this mum took some pics for a group of kids on a school trip from Canada. One of them offered to take a pic for us and ...

Ok so here we are again. Today we drove to Matmata to go to the hobbitson tour. This was amazing. We drove out there and when we got there we bought our tickets and waited for the bus to drive us to the set. We had a look at all the little houses and a lot of other stuff out there. Our guide was great and really funny. I was really amazed at how green it was out there. And they had fruit trees with apples and pears. They looked so unreal you just wanted to pick o...

Well here we are again. We stuffed around in Auckland. We saw the museum and had a look around the town. We took lots of pics.We never got away until midday. We went to Thames to see the orchid and butterfly gardens. They were so beautiful. There were so many butterfly's and they were from all over the world. It was amazing. They cant have our Ulysses (big bright blue one) because they like big open spaces and this is a controlled environment with little sunlight...

Today we had a really early start. Getting up before the sun did.(6:00am). We decided that we were going to detour across the island to Waipoua Forest. We wanted to see Tane Mahuta Giant Kauri tree. We had to drive through alot of rainforest up a massive mountain to get to it. As we were driving up the mountain there was alot of misty air. You could see where the clouds met the trees. There was a heavy fog today and when you looked over the sides of the roads, be...

Today we actually had a sleep in. Yippee. Got going at around 9:30am. We should have arrived at Paihia around lunch but that did not happen. Firstly we went to 90 mile beach. This is the longest beach in the world. We stood on the beach and no matter what direction you looked you couldn't see the end. Then moving on we called at ancient Kauri kingdom. They had 45000 year old trees were carved into furniture, stairs and anything you could imagine. I got mum to tak...