Well today we arrived at Lake Mahinapua and was told that the theme for the fancy dress party would be bin bags! How on earth can you make a good costume out of bin bags, we were wondering!! Jackie came up with the idea that she wanted to make a wedding dress! 'She must be very creative' I thought and couldn't think of anything good to make myself and neither could Sara. When we arrived at the hostel (well you couldn't call it a hostel, because the rooms were j...

Well today I left Nelson on the bus and headed for Westport. We wasn't on the road for that long, but our poor driver bless her has not got great taste in music! There's only so much cheesy music I can take! We had a few lovely stops on the way though, where we saw the cutey little ducks and the scenery was amazing! When we arrived at Westport it was like walking through a ghost town, where had all the people gone?! It was a really cute hostel though and it fel...

Today, after the dolphin swimming, it was off onto Nelson. It was quite a long drive, but we had a lot of stops along the way to break the journey up a bit. One of our stops was at a small cafe in the middle of nowhere, and a few miles along the road we found out that there had been a huge land slip, so we couldn't get to our hostel. We were told that it could take from half an hour to 7 hours to clear it! As we weren't going anywhere in a hurry I decided to get ...

Well today was my first day on the Kiwi Experience bus and so far it seems ok, but it just doesn't have the same feel to it as the Oz Experience did! Hopefully it will get better though. The people on the bus were great and made friends with three girls from up north and we got on really well. When we got to Kaikoura the sun was shining and we had brilliant views over the snow capped mountains. I have never seen scenery like that before, so I was very happy. We...

Well here I am in New Zealand and it's bloody freezing!! My last few days in Cairns were just spent chilling out with friends in the glorious heat and now I'm here! Going from 30 degrees to 8 degrees is never good! So it's back to jeans and wooly jumpers for me for a little while I think. My flight from Cairns was definitely an experience. My flight left at 05:50 and took me to Brisbane. I didn't think I would get on the flight in time though, as after queuing ...