We set off from Abel Tasmin for a 4hour drive to Greymouth on the West Coast, the views where just gorgeous though! Rolling mountains, beautiful Lakes and all the greenery and the Autumn colours (oh....we are so poetic). 'Dave' finally made it to Greymouth, not much there but we did stay in the most amazing hostel ever!!! That evening we made dad a feast followed by wine, beer and a few games of s***head!! The next morning we watched finding Nemo whilst dad we...

When we arrived in Nelson we stayed in yet another lovely hostel, we went for a drink and a few games of pool, playing doubles with 2 maoris and Lol and Luce managed to beat them...of course! (Nat you would have been proud). Saturday, John had some quality time at a car museum whilst us girlies hit the markets and had a wander around the town before all heading back for a relax back at the hostel. That night we introduced dad to eating Thai, he is officially hoo...

So we set off in 'Dave' on the morning of 2nd May towards Kaikoura, stopping only for some photos before heading to our lovely cosy hostel in Blenheim with a big log burning fire and John got to catch up on his jet-lagg.  The next day (Thursday) we were up bright and early to begin our personal wine tour in 'Dave' around the Marlborough wine region, tasting all those on Coyotes wine list - all for free!!! Including Frammingham, Allan Scott, Spy Valley, Mud...

hi all,so.....from the last entry we said goodbye to max and setlled into our FREEZING studio apartment and continued to work our butts off at the lovely Coyotes. Not all was bad though as we got to meet the infamous (wait for it)...........Brendan Cole!!!! (on 2 separate occasions), he came in for food with his dad and step-mum (our boss). We were frickin loving it. Lucy wanted to ask him to sign her boobs but we thought best not to. Lol contemplated asking him ...

So sorry this is very late, however we have been so busy at work and having Max here, we haven't had the time to sit down and write. Anyway get ready for an essay or maybe bullet points.....here we go....... So Maxine (from Uni) arrived on 20th February, after many tears and screams of excitement in the middle of Christchurch airport. We managed to get a few days off work to do the touristy thing which was fab along with Ana (from Fraser Island -Oz) who was ...