HI ALL, WE ARE BOTH WELL JUST TO LET YOU KNOW SOME MORE PHOTOS ARE HERE, BUT THEY DONT SUM UP HOW NICE IT IS HERE. CALLIE MAKE SURE YOU GET IN THERE FIRST AND SLICE SIMON UP. SPEAK TO YOU ALL SOON
KAT AND TINKS
Callie
Hello, My class and I are really pleased you are going to Aukland Zoo on my birthday- they seem to think you are a nice brother! Did you know you are over half way through your travels? Scary! Nothing much has happened here. Simon and I have taken up fencing and he is visious! He was dressed all in black this week and looked like a ninja (a ninja turtle- Raphael! Remember how you used to love them Ste!). Simon is evil though, swings his foil around as if it was a sword. He'll take someone's head off! Miss you both, Callie x
Sue B
Hi guys sounds like your having great fun, seems like there is more to do in New Zealand than anywhere else you have been. Bet the glacier was great. Are you feeling better now Katy you sounded pretty poorly on Saturday, have you passed your germs on to Steve yet, you know we always taught you to share things with those around you, hee hee. Nothing much to report here, I worked on Saturday,Dad built a bit more of his plane. Sunday was quite warm and sunny for a while so I decided to clean the cars, yes yours as well Katy. Didn't realise it was purple it came as quite a shock and yes I even cleaned the inside aswell. Dad sends his love and will try and write soon but he has no internet access where he is working at the moment. Penny is fine, man across the road knocked on the door on Tuesday morning to say she was out in the front garden so he let her back and closed the gate, so someone must have opened the gate while we were out and not closed it properly all a bit of a mystery but at least she is ok. Well thats about it for now have a lady coming to have her legs waxed in a moment so will have to sign off. Love you both loads speak soon love Mum and Dad.
Amy
Hello oh my god i am so jealous now - I loved Queenstown and Wanaka - we couldn't do the hard one either when we went to Puzzle world but me and Andy decided to split up and then i got lost all on my own and couldn't find my way out!! was very sad!!! i liked the room where you became a giant when you walked from one side to the other!!! Was very cool!!
Anyway as work is so super busy will leave it there and speak to you soon!! Enjoy the museum in Wellington - have you been to the Bee Hive yet?
Axx
Kat And Tinks
Hi Jonah, glad things are all ok, you sound very grown up now bet your mum is impressed, will have to come and see it when I get back. Fi and chris thanks for the grad photos there great. Mummy Lucas with the cds I sent you last did you recieve all FIVE and did they all work ok - Im just checking before I delete lots of fotos thank you. we are having a lovely time but time is running out now sob sob.
message you all soon tinks and kat
Jonah And Rae
My boy, as if by fate i only turned my old phone on yesterday and recieved your text, rather strange. Really sorry not been in touch, had new job as sales rep so been travelling all over the shop without any access to the net. Recently returned to the office in a different department. Just had brief banter through the many notes and messages, the experiences and places all seem fantastic. Excuse the lack of messages from us both, can assure you that we have been thinking and speaking of you both lots - i need to be briefed on the current affairs as i cant believe its been 7 months already and i have lost track of major events!!!! hi ya ginge, hope all good you look stunning on the photos, good to see ya with a tan!!!
Me and rach are still together and all is going scarily well, we have put a deposit down on a new two bed house in tipton (on the same estate where we are renting) and had the mortgage agreed. It is due to be completed early april so all good news there - check me out all grown up. Cookie came round yesterday and he and katie are interested in an apartment on the estate, so its seems i have started a trend and he could be one of me neighbours!!!!! how bizzare. Not been going out a lot as been cutting back for house, we now have all our furniture and it looks fantastic. Rach sends her love and thoughts.
Thinking of it i am kinda missing ya, so get the places visited take a few photos and get ya milky way ass back here (with kat obviously) Your both in our thoughts, drink and be merry but more importantly stay safe, we love ya both very much, best wishes for future travel jonah and rach x x
Mummy & Daddy
Glad to see you've enjoyed NZ so much that you told us about it four times. I did read them all just to make sure they were the same.
Did you take in any of the mountains as you went up and down the south Island. Mount Cook and Mount Hutt are both stunning.
I am also wondering what there is that you haven't now done?
You haven't mentioned boozy nights in pubs yet so that's something to try. Or is that a daily event?
Take care. Love Us XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX(those tricky computer buttons eh Katy)
FI
Hi guys
Sounds like u had a gr8 time Promise us you will take us there sometime it looks wicked!! I had a look on the 2 websites and managed to find you. The one of u2 on the shotover jet is really nice. Ive saved it onto my laptop (naughty me!). I think we can go whitewater rafting in DR I take it you would recommend it. I guess you could just have an action packed holiday doin all the adventure stuff. I dont think we're gonna be able to meet u over in Canada but we promise to go away with u when ur back or wherever u live then!! Its almost half term and the little sods have given me a cold! It best go by next week. Anyway, glad ur having such a fab time. missin ya loads. Love Fi xx
Kat Nad Tinks
opps the computer was being slow and I pressed the button too many times did not mean to send it four times!!!woops Love yuo all loads kat and tinks (P.S This was Kat's fault not ste's)
Kat And Tinks
Hello Everyone,
Thankyou for all of your wonderful messages we love hearing from you, well we have now moved to North Island but here is a run down of what we have been up to the past week!We have travelled to Te Anau and looked at Milford Sound National Park that is where some of Lord of the Rings was filmes and where there is a set of mirror lakes that give you a perfect mirror image of the mountains behind unfortunately it was quite windy when we went and so our mirror image pictures don't work!! This place is amazing and whilst we were there we also saw a filmcrew shooting that was exciting unfortunately neither me or ste were asked to perform as extras!! Whilst in Te Anau we also rented out a quadracycle that was a lot of fun and me and ste had much fun pedalling around the village actually ste did most of the work coz at times Kat had trouble!!! Next we drove to Queenstown which is the capital of adventure sports, we loved this place it was soo cool and it had every adventure sport under the sun unfortunately choosing was a bit of a hardship but we did Whitwater rafting and Jetboating both on different part of the Shotover river. Well waht can we say they were exhilerating, fun, adventurous, and at times scary especially driving in buses towing rafts behind us going down this very very old road called the Skippers canyon. It is very dangerous and at times one of the front wheels was hanging off the edge of the cliff!! Anyway we survived and you can see photos of us at www.queenstownrafting.co.nz and www.shotoverjet.co.nz and go to daily photos put in 27th jan and you can see us you have to search a bit! After we said a sad farewell to Queenstown we headed to Wanaka where there is this huge place called Puzzling World where there was this huge maze and me and ste naturally thought out of the two challenges that you can do we would do the harder one which stated out fine the idea of this challenge is too find the four towers in a certain way ie yellow, green, red and then blue. Well we stated off finding the yellow tower easily then we thoght we hafound the green but ended up visiting both the blue and red before the green we had been in there for about an hour and half before we found the green tower it was very annoying because we could see the tower but not get to it we did manage to find the right path and Kat the managed to find the exit so we completed the easy challenge and we dont think that anybody ever completes the hard challenge!!! We also saw water travelling upwards and ball going up up a pool table we were standing in a room that was wonky. Throws you completely off balance!!
After we then moved onto Franz Glacier and you got it we went for a walk on a huge ice block! No actually seeing the glacier is amazing and waliking on it equally as amazing it's really beautiful to look at and there are people on the ice all day that just cut your path that you walk on as well as the gide then reshaping it as he goes up it was sooo cool and not in an icy way although me and ste did pick up two clean pieces of ice and start eating it!! The glacier there id no way to describe it other than amazing and to think most other glaciers are shrinking this one is getting larger!! Hearing the ice crack as you walk on it is soo amazing you all have to come and do it there is no other place like it!!! Anyway after this we went Nelson just as a stopover we looked at the shops and then moved to Picton where we caught the ferry back to the North Island. We are now currently on Wellington and are spending some more time exploring the Te a papa museum and taking in the culture! There is also a lot of crazy people here we happen to catch there super seven rugby weekend so everybody is dressed up and we caught a wheres Wally look a like yesterday on the ferry I know very funny ste hopes they are bringing out a new Where's Wally book he is very excited about it!!! Anyway we are off to Mount Egmont on monday whch should be fun, anyway everyone look after yourselves have fun write loads love you loads Kat and Tinksxxx
Mr Chris
Hi guys, hope your are ok and still having loads of fun. Sitting at home watching telly feeling jealous of you in the sun shine. Its bloody freezing here!! Any just a quick message. take care
Mr Chris
Callie
My class want to know if you have been to Aukland zoo yet?