Katie We only got 1 day off school but on Wednesday they delayed school to 10 o clock and we were going to finish at 4!!! But because of the heavy snow we finished at 11:30!!!!! Luckily I didnt have to ring the lists. But today it the holidays!YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hamish Hi Katie Oh yeah - when I want snow before I leave I dont get it, but a week before I come home we get snow. GREAT. Seriously, sounds like you have now had more snow than you want. Did you get any days off school? Glad you and Aaron are OK after your skid. Be seeing you soon, Hello to everyone at school Hamish

Hamish Yes I am thanks Josh. You would like Go Ape - so would everyone else that I know. Zip lines are SOOOOO COOOOOL . Total coolness. Mum thought they would be scary, but they werent. They were fun - even Mum thought so. Ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip for 100 or so metres! We didnt get to go on the longest one in the UK which is about 460 metres cos we would have had to drive a very long way to get there. But our longest one was 184 metres which was pretty cool. See you when I am home - most likely see you soon, as we have only a week or so left before I am back. Hamish

Ngaire Hi there Danny, Glad to hear that you made it safely to the end of your journey. We have been wondering how you got on. Will email you a copy of our pic of the famous chess match as soon as we can. tried just before, but need to swap email servers first. Steina is still practicing her knife trick - a few touches of the fruit, but no direct hits yet! Watch this space!! Sorry to say we didnt get to meet your mum nd see the roman coins - we had trouble finding a bed on the Salisbury Plains area and ended up down in Southampton so never got up to Bampton and Oxford. Take care, With kindest regards, Ngaire, Hamish and Steina

Danny Not got over losing that chess match. Wonder if you managed to get to see the Roman coins in Bampton? Arrived in Edinburgh before the rains came, thank goodness. The pic of the three of you turned out well. Best wishes for the rest of your journey.

Josh Sellwood Hi Hamish looks like you are having a great holiday. See you soon.

Katie You will never guess what we got. SNOW! 4 or 5 inches! On Sunday me and my brothers went to the top of one of the hills at the farm and went sleding. We got some videos of ben doing a massive jump! my brother aaron hurt is tailbone going down the jump and he didnt want to go on the motorbike so he walked all the way back home!LOL. Anyways it was great fun. On the saturday aaron and i attempted to get to Invicargill. Not a good idea! When we stopped to turn around we skidded about 2 meters!

Ngaire and Hamish LOL LOL LOL Katie! We bet they got into so much trouble!! Mum sed poor Miss Macfie - but it was still funny! I was going to get Miss Macife a present - saw a squishy fake rat the other day that I was going to put in her handbag, but Mum sed I wasnt allowed. :0( We saw two tiny harvest mice last night, and you will never guess where we saw them. They were living around the train tracks down in the underground. One of the mice was chewing on an applecore by the lines when the train was coming. it jumped away just as the train was coming into the station. If it had jumped any later it would have been splat. We reckon there's a high death rate amongst underground system mice! on other news, only a couple more weeks to go. :() See ya. Hamish

Katie Hi Hamish today there was a mouse in the classroom. The teacher walked in and we all screamed mouse even though we knew it was there.She screamed and jumped back. Some how there was a dead mouse in our classroom and Jess,Georgia and Owen put it in her handbag.then they got in BIG trouble! LOL

Hamish Hi Andrew - pretty good, pretty good! And Katie - glad you did get at least one day off school. Shame about the lists tho! My trip is nearly over - see you all soon I suppose. Off to breakfast now. Hamish