Thursday: Left Rototua on the Fun Bus. 1st stop was having a quick look at the Forest (forgotten name, sorry). All really nice but at 9am I was still trying to waking up. 2nd stop was to see a geysers, very large one, it shot up in the air to about 5 meters plus. Then we saw some boiling mud bubbling away. 3rd stop was Wai-O-Tapu thermal reserve, lots of geysers, vivid hot pools and more boiling mud. Walk round and saw lots of different types of pools, eve...

Today was the best day ever, one of the most exciting days of my life. Exciting & scary at the same time. I did a Sky Dive from 12,000 ft up. I wasn't nervous during the build up. I was just so excited. I said to Alan, "I'm not scared" and he said that he was scared for me. He didn't do it. He said he was waiting for Australia, but maybe he is chickening out. Met some Irish Girls on the bus and they were doing it to. They were so funny because they w...

Monday: Magic bus picked us up, 1st stop Mount Eden, a former volcano with a huge crater, cows now surround this. We also got to see the view of Auckland city at 8am in the morning. 2nd stop Waitomo. Went to the underground caves. Very exciting?!? We got to see glow worms. Then we went to see Rabits being sheared. These big fluffy rabbits have to be sheared every 3 months to stop them getting matted. Poor things. They look very funny, wait for the ph...

Arrived in Auckland yesterday morning at 4.30am. Due to the time difference we missed a whole day! Lefted Chile 11.25pm Thursday and are now here on Saturday morning. Feels so strange. Especially as the flight was only 12 hrs. Got to the hostel, and Wow it is so big. Over 600 rooms, a travel agent, internet area of about 50 computers, massive common area, tv rooms, big kitchen, etc etc. Sorry to go on but after the small hostels in south america this i...