NEW ZEALAND-TAUPO TO NAPIER!

We got off the Kiwi tour so we could get our own coach to Napier to see the Cricket. It was the 3rd and final test England vs New Zealand, so far we had both won a test. We booked our tickets in the UK we ended up going with 3 other people.Anita, Alex and Ricky. We arrived on good friday at the naffest hostel ever, i could write an essay on how bad it was. Nothing was open, no one was there and we couldn't buy alcohol as nowhere in NZ had a licence on good friday! That eve we met some guys from Wellington and had a right laugh and they provided us with food and alcohol how lucky were we? Hayden and Sarah were here for the Jack Johnson concert on the sat. On sat we headed to the cricket at bout 9.30 and we had to meet Jimmy to give him his whisky he left in Taupo. Jimmy is a cricket barmy army legend who gets paid to travel to all games and Katy Cooke the ticket lady called us and asked us a favour to pick it up, so we did. Sat/sun/mon/tues we didn't get up to much other than the cricket and cook in the eve. On sun Hayden and Sarah joined us at the cricket.....was hilarious when we started kicked arse and the kwiw's wern't happy. Just want to mention we had Rossi the monkey in our hostel with matt and joe

LAST NIGHT OF THE CRICKET

We finished at 1.30pm ont the final day. England had a 553 the day before and declared, so the kiwi's batted all of day 5! We watch the presentation and saw Ryan sidebottom awarded man of the match. We were sad all the days of singing with the barmy army were over. the songs were just hilarious and really helped the players. At 1 point Kevin Peterson turned round to the barmy and gestured for them to sing. We heaed out about 4pm to start the celebrations we had some food and cheap drinks and played pool at RSA until 7pm when we got a free bus for the fans to Thirsty whale on the west quay. we drank some export gold and sang loads. Suddenly all the England cricketers came in apart from 3 of them Strauss, Sidebottom and Peterson., they would have got completely mauld! Anyway it proceeded to be an immense night as you can see from the photos. There was collingwood singing on the bar, harmison singing. We all met Vaughn cook, Broad, Monty panaser, harmison, anderson, ambrose and loads more including KP's girlfriend-Michel;le heaton...she was cool. We were buzzing for the next few days, we couldn't believe that happened!