Well the road trip began by leaving Auckland and heading to Rotarua where we all met up at a top ten campsite. After 2days apart Karen and I were glad to be reunited!!! Rotarua STANK, the natural sulphur and pools make the whole place smell of rotten eggs. We visited Hells Gate which was a very active geothermal area with various types of hot pools and springs (hot being above 100 degrees c with an acidity level of in places just ph 1, so we didint venture to c...

Happy New Year to everyone, lets hope its a happy and prosperous 2008. New Years Eve in Auckland certainly was a great night, enjoyed by all we had a very good three course meal, wine, baileys and malt whisky! As the bells rang the fireworks were set off from the sky tower, lighting up the sky infront of thousands of people. We left the restaurant and found a great Irish Bar with live music and partied there until 5am! Even met a Scots man dressed casual kilt! W...

A belated Merry Christmas to everyone, great to of spoke to you all and we have missed you all dearly over this festive period. So our time in Auckland so far has consisted of 2 weeks staying in a backpackers and working Christmas parties all over either waitressing or barwork, which has been great fun but odd to be back to the grindstone after such a long time off. We are both looking forward to starting some real serious work soon. (Karen sooner unfortunatly)...

Hey everyone. We are terribly sorry to have fallen behind with the blog. Karen did write it all out which took nearly an hour for her then to lose it all (bummer)!!! So we are in New Zealand and have been busy getting a bank account, a tax number, phones and YEP a job. We start tomorrow night at a function in North shores waitressing with an agency for the moment, but give us chance we have only been here 2 days... The 2 days we have been here has been none st...