Hello everyone!

We're having a fab time in New Zealand! Its beautiful!! We've just come over to the south island. We did loads in the North island! Our favourite place so far is Russel in the Bay of Islands. It was gorgeous! We went swimming with wild dolphins while we where there which was cool! You have to sing and dance around in the water to keep them entertained! They changed their sonar to sing back to you!

We had a brilliant time in Rotorua, even if it does smell of rotten eggs! We went zorbing down a hill in a giant inflatable ball with water in it! Then we went to "Hells Gate" which is a natural geothermal area. We had mud baths, a soak in a sulpher pool and a lovely massage!! Ahhhh! Then we went to a restaurant which you get to by sky gondala which overlooks all of Taupo! It was cool!

When we were in Waitomo we did the "lost world epic" which involves abseiling 100m into a cave and then swimming,climbing and crawling to make youre way back out! It took us about 7hrs as the water was quite high. it was a brilliant day! Topped off by bbq of steaks and sausages!! Heaven!!

The people over here seem soooo friendly! We've been rescued a few times! One day our camper van got stuck in hole! Doh! So we had to go and knock on a house and ask if they could help! A very nice man came and pulled us out with his 4x4! very embarrassing!! Then later on the same day our fan belt broke and another very nice man stopped and fixed it for us!! Our knight in shining armour!!

We loved the North island and everyone says the South island is amazing so I'll let you know when we've seen some more of it! The North island is so clean and green!!

Bye for now!!