Hey all!!! Hope everyone is well? we're in Melbourne!! country No.3!! have to say we're slowing down on the old sight seeing (hense no photos as yet!) but having a wikid time - oz is involving less lakes & moutains but a lot more alcohol!! we're staying in a funky hostel - in Saint Kilda called Bass. we're in the girl section called the Santuary or 'the bird santuary!' but its lots of fun - there's a bar in the hostel so spent quite a bit of time...

Hey all, This is my last entry for NZ. Its been a strange few days for many reasons. Unfortunatly Grandma had to leave us! to cut a long story short, she broke down as i was over taking (at high speeds!) a car pulling a caravan! i managed to pull over and she had to be taken away! but it kinda worked for the best as we've been staying at nikkis parents friends. So our last night in grandma wasn't the most glamous! a petrol station car park ...

Alright my lovelies - happy valentines day!! so nice to hear all you messages - thought you be proud shell!!.. and thanks for the email parents!! sorry to hear your ill mum - and sorry to hear it was dad's fault!! (naughty daddy sharing your flu)!!! we're now in the north island and driven up from Wellington to Lake Taupo -its been a bit exciting.... guess what we did yesterday... SKYDIVED!!!! (So sorry mum!!) it was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and pret...

OK so slight blunder in the last entry... the whales we obviously not 18 foot!! they were 18 meters!!! opsy! anyway we've left Kikora now and we drove to Nelson which is a lovely little city. similar feel to Queenstown. The weathers been gorg so we've taken advantage and had a couple of beach sunbathing days! they were v nice.. though nikki got crapped on by 4 sealgulls in 1 hour!! we told her it was lukcy ... don't think she saw it like that!! thi...

Today we went Whale watching....I haven't thrown up so much in years!!! Ok ...nobody warned us just how bloody bumpy it was guna be!! my tummy is still churning now.. not even joking... i hate roler costers and it was pretty much a 3 3/4 hour roler coster ride with 15 mins of whales! ok not doing it justice.. it was completely amazing to see whales .. we were sooo lucky as well as its really good if you see 2 and we saw 4 whales! they were sperm w...