The park brought back memories..The umbrellas are new.Enjoying your pics a lot. Opa

Love the Tibetan scenery and spirituality that takes over. Happy trekking and looking forward to seeing you both SOON....

xxxxx

Hi Aidan and Alana.
The Blues vs Chiefs game in Tauranga was Awesome. It was really tight and only 9-3 to the chiefs at halftime. The Chiefs came out on top at 23-16. They deserved it.
Overall, they played harder and the experience in the team showed at the critical times.
Hope your trip is still going well.
We are just about to sit down with Nana and show her all your photos, so keep sending them.

Hi Aidan & Alana, yes, we were anxiously looking out for a new posting from you. Glad to hear you are both well and having a great time! We look forward to hearing about, and seeing photos of, the places you have most recently visited! Happy St Pat's day for last Sunday by the way. We had Nevin family here for lunch to celebrate. Rugby S15 results: Last weekend Chiefs 35 v Kings 24. Blues had bye. This weekend: Friday Chiefs v Highlanders @ Waikato Stadium. Saturday Blues v Waratahs in Whangarei. 30th March: Blues v Chiefs in Mt Maunganui. We finally got some rain!!! The first significant rain this year! Everyone has been so pleased to see it - imagine Aucklanders being happy to see rain! Bye for now, and enjoy the cruise down the Yangtze! Love to you both, Mum & Dad.

Just a quick message to let you all know that we are still alive! We've had a great time along the Sichuan - Tibetan highway and Jiuzhaigou national park. This evening we are going on a 3 day cruise down the Yangtze River to Yichang, then straight onto a night train to Xi'an! We have heaps of photos to sort through and there will be some blog updates coming when we get to Xi'an.

Thanks for all the messages and comments - keep 'em coming!

Your weekend sports results, in case you don't have them. Black Sox 4 Venezuela 1. We're World Champs again! but I bet there'll still be more said about the cricket in the media! Blues 21 Bulls 28 @ Eden Park. JK trying out some new players. Chiefs 34 Stormers 36 in Capetown. Thames was great, went to Brew Cafe Saturday night to listen to two acoustic guitarists (Canadian & Aussie) really enjoyed that. Weather great and good number at Mandolinata Concert on Sunday. Alice and Ian came to the concert, so had a quick catchup with them. Cecilia & Toby were in the Hokianga this weekend for Hailey (Toby's sister) & George's wedding. Kieran did Round the Bays yesterday. That's all the news from home for now. Hope all's well with you two. love, Mum & Dad.

Awesome blog and photos. Keep it up! Aaron started his but soon got too busy. Looking forward to more updates.

Hey Alana and Aidan,
Amazing adventure- thanks for giving us the opportunity to see the world through your blog... hope to see more.... have fun!!!

Chiefs 45 Cheetahs 3! With a score like that it will surprise you to hear that the Chiefs coach is unhappy with parts of their performance! So great you were in Yangshuo for Lantern Fest. Fireworks and light show photos amazing! Moon Hill, surrounding countryside worth 15km walk!

Hey guys awesome photos - lots of memories rekindled, the show as awesome as ever and the beer fish even better!! Ha ha, we picked out the chilli too - Aidan are you beat??
Take care xxx

Blues cleaned out the Crusaders under Sir JK (34-15). Chiefs on tomorrow night. Blues have a bit of attitude this year. p.s. They missed about 4 kicks, which would have been embarrassing.

Whoa! Slow down on the awesomeness! You are making our Europe holiday look like a joke ;)