Kia Ora…. Firstly - Rotorua smells horrible! The sulphur that comes from the geothermal activity makes the whole place smell like rotten eggs. Anyway, so day one in Rotorua (Friday 8th) saw Loz and Steph go Zorbing. For those of you who don't know what this is, basically they put water into a big inflatable ball and you get in it and roll down a hill. Didn't appeal to me and so I was the photographer! They had a wicked time though. Then we went back to the ...

So we left Auckland on Thursday (7th Feb) on our way to Mercury Bay. As we left Auckland we drove up Maungawhau, Mount Eden) which is one of 70 dormant volcanoes in the region, and is the best spot to get 360 degree views of Auckland City, the waitemata Harbour etc etc… Then we headed towards the Coromandel Peninsula over the Coromandel ranges. We stopped at Hot Water Beach where Steph and I hired spades and buried Laura (and gave her big boobs). Once we hi...

We left Auckland on Monday morning to head to Paihia (The Bay of Islands).We went out over teh harbour bridge and followed the hibiscous coast before arriving ina place called Warkworth for a cup of tea. We then went through a place called Whangarei then up to the Bay of Islands. Staying in Base backpackers which is alright. We then booked onto a jet boat tour of the bay of islands called teh excitor. It was really fast and we got soaked and went over massive wav...

Hello, so we got to Auckland on Thursday (31st Jan) on a 2 and a half hour flight that really dragged but we got there and mer Piwi (Kate) who took us back to her apartment which is really nice. We met her other 3 housmates, Katy, Lisa and Mel and just chilled out as it was around 6.30pm anyway! Piwi cooked us a lovely stirfry and we collapsed earlyish whilst watching Music n Lyrics! Friday we got up abit later than expected (but only 11ish and to be fair our b...

So we arrived at our final destination of Cairns on Monday and straight away I fell in love with this place. Its such a cute place, kind of like a little holiday town. Anyway, we checked into shennanigans hostel and then headed to the lagoon...its so pretty there. We chilled out there for a bit then met up with some of Laura's friends from school who are out here. Steph and I went for a swim in the lagoon then when we got out got informed that some little kid had...