Eventually i have found a min or two to catch up with our journal....things have been pretty hectic since we arrived in Oz...but with all the New Year celebrations done now, the pace of life in the city is starting to slow slightly and giving us time to breath!Casting my mind back to New Zealand and to Fox Glacier, where we last wrote the diary, already seems a long time to go....ahhhh...how to make time slow down? Anyway, ill try to catch up...So, Ice Climbing a...

Right, whooooo, we've had a mad couple of weeks since the last time we updated you but I'm going to try and sit still for half an hour to catch up.... So, in Rotorua (think bubbling mud everywhere) we went White water rafting. This was great - we'd been told about this legendary waterfall (the biggest commercially raftable waterfall in the world) that you can go over, so we thought we'd give it a shot. We headed down this canyon/ravine, over som...

Hey everyone, well i have got the daunting task of summarising the last week.  It has been so amazing and action packed i am actually nervous about doing it!   Plus i am absolutely exhausted (and rather smelly)as i have not quite recovered from sleeping in the car last night (Richard's money saving scheme)!!  Actually, despite my negative attitude to the whole idea it wasnt such a bads night sleep and im only slightly crippled as a result....