Hi everyone! We have just booked 5 days skiing in Mount Hutt, it's ridiculously cheap!! We start early tomorrow. Hopefully I will have all of my limbs in working order by the end of it, or Tom and Chris will be stuck without a driver! I cannot believe that you have been to the gym 5 times this week Emily, are you feeling ok??!! The only excersize I've ever seen you do is walk from the sofa to the cupboard where you keep the crisps! hee hee!! Lulu, it's not long until we will be back, the last couple of months have flown by!! Take care guys, we will keep you informed about how the skiing goes, I'm sure we will be going off piste by the end of it!!? x x x x x

Hey All,

Having a great time in NZ, we are in Kaikora at the moment and we are hoping to go whale/dolphin watching tomorrow. Should be awesome. It's the tri nations rugby final tonight the All Blacks Vs Australia so should be a good laugh down the pub. We will write more postcards as we didn't realise people were reading them, Anna is working on one just now, so hope you all read it. Lots of love to Nan and Marg, Geoff and Sue, Dad, Jack, Mum. Postcards are more awkward and more expensive to send in NZ so the lack is hopefully understood, electronic ones will have to suffice for now.

Revelations abound, I've just had my hair cut so hopefully I wont look like such a scruff in the next set of photo's. Emily do I need my eyes tested or did you actually say you had been to the gym 5 times in a week, I never thought you would have gone 5 times in your life yet to come let alone 5 in a week, are you feeling okay???

Lucy, I've sent you email and I hope things are returning to normal back in Chislewood.

Mum, Jack did send me an email at last (I've replied Jack so get typing again soon)

Take care till next time

hello you two!! havent written a message for ages, but im round at mum and dads today so thought id have a look at your website! cant believe you went sky diving that is unbelievable!! lucy showed me her dvd and it looks so fun! you've done so much amazing stuff!! the cocktails look pretty nice out there too :) ive got the week off work so have been spending rather a lot of time with lucy at the pub, and ive bin to the gym 5 times this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm going to be the size of arnie by the time you get back... hahaha. Anyway, keep having an amazing time and i will try and get back to your website as soon as I can. Miss you both lots, theres bin many a drama recently.... xxxxx

hey guys..sounds like ur having such a wicked time..cant believe u saw our names in the book that is amazin! skydiving is the best buzz ever. vicky is back and she said what a great time she had when she travelled with u for a bit...im jealous i didnt get to see u..i miss u terribly.....anna ive written u and epic email explaining all the gossip. really really really look forward to seeing u!!! love u both loads...lulu xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Wow! good job you did America first guys... there would have been nothing left to see after the hurricane!!! seriousely though good to see you're keeping yourselves safe - if jumping out of planes counts as safe?! - Rich says that if you two could do it i can do it! i told him to take me to NZ and then we'd see!!! you guys have definately given me the travelling bug, am concocting hair brained schemes to make some money so i can haul ass outta here!!! try not to get raped by any sheep farmers! love & kisses xxx

Dear Tom and Anna, wow what a time you seem to be having - and some marvellous photos too!! Can't say plummeting great distances in a sleeping bag on the end of an elastic band appeals to us, but each to their own. Will life will seem very boring when you get home?!
Please keep doing the postcards as we print them off and forward them to Margaret and Nanny Vine.
Take care and we wait with bated breath to see what you get up to next!! G & S xxx

Anna - please do your postcards - I look at them! So glad you are having such a brilliant time - the sky diving sounds amazing and I'm very impressed with you both for having the guts to do it! Tell Tom that Jack is supposedly sending him an email today but don't hold your breath!
Love Deb x

By the way Comedy, glad to hear you have departed English shores! Write me an email, [email protected] if you want to know anything more about the places we have been that you might be on the way to. Have a blast mate, and definatly do a skydive!!!

SKYDIVING! YEAHHHHHHHH what a rush! Rich you can no longer call me a wimp for not wanting to do it, I even have evidence on DVD! And you were completley right, it is the best thing EVER!

Scouse, Chris, our travel companion you see in pictures is also from Liverpool, except he is much more polite and respectable. You would probably think he was doing the nature of scoucers an injustice. Anyway, regarding the haircut, all it takes to sort mine out will be 10 mins in a barbers, yours will forever be the cursed ginger, so coveted by....no one! ha ha ha Got 'im yeeees! Though your observations are correct I'm starting to look more like a tramp than a traveller now, it needs shearing big time, I might ask one of the 'friendly' New Zealand sheep farmers to do me a favor eh?

Glad to see that you are liking all the extreme sports we are doing! We went sky diving yesterday!! Yep, even Tom, after all his talk about dislocating eye sockets etc! We were just going to watch Chris do it, but the excitement of it all got the better of us, so we decided to throw caution to the wind and chuck ourselves out of an aeroplane at 12,000 feet! It was the most amazing experience EVER, and probably the highlight of our trip so far! We saw your names in the book lulu and vix!! We did it in Taupo too!! We have also been white water rafting over the largest commercially rafted waterfall in the world!! Rich, you definately have to go to New Zealand, you would LOVE it!!! I definately want to go sky diving with you in England when we get back!! I hope that you guys have a great reunion, it's a shame we can't be there, we will have to have another one when we're back!! Thanks for the details about Jeanette Gran, we will definately take her up on the offer of staying for a couple of days!! I agree about haircut 100 Scouse! I will try to sort him out for the next round of photos, hee hee!! Take care everyone x x x x x x x x x x

Have emailed a copy of Janette's (my Australian cousin living in Melbourne) details - please let me know if you receive this ok.

Lots of love, Gran xx

heres a little advice for billus meridius maximus!!!!

Are you ready????

Get your hair cut!!!! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Hope you 2 are enjoying yourselves. all the best
Scoose.