Well, Queenstown is so great we ended up staying a whole week! Tom did his very high bunjy jump like a pro, so impressive! On Monday (my birthday!) we went on a trip to the Milford Sound. Took 4 hours on a coach to get there but definitely worth while. We made a few photo stops along the way, lots of mountains and waterfalls to look at. When we got there we had a 2 hour boat trip which included a buffet lunch, yum! We cruised through the Sound to the Tasman s...

So got to the ferry and set off at half 8 for the 3 hour trip to the South island.Arrived in Picton and got onto our new bus.Our old driver Grumpy Pete didn't come over with us so we met our new driver Guy.Soon discovered that we were now on the party bus!!!!He has certain rules on the bus, including the last two people on the bus get handcuffed together!Also the words that, mine, flip flop and thong (they call them jandals here) are banned, and the fine in 10 pu...

Friday we left Taupo stopping off at the Tongariro National Park, there was a 2 hour walk that we could do but being as we saw so much the day before and were both aching we decided not to do it!!The weather was really nice so we sat out in the sun for a while and looked around the visitor centre.It took a few hours to get from here to River Valley where we were staying in a lodge over night.We spent the evening playing cards with our new travelling buddy Ruth, t...

Ok I know I've missed out some of Australia but I'm going straight into New Zealand blogs now as time is going by so quickly and we are so busy! I'll just say Mission beach was great, skydiving AAAHHHHHHH!! Can't believe I did it but it was good!!Cairns was good as we went on a boat trip out on the Great Barrier Reef where we did scuba diving and snorkelling, amazing!We'll tell you all about that when we get back anyway!Also, after writing Singapore Tom is giving...