Apologies to those who have actually checked our blog. I'm obviously a girl who does things on impulse and after trying in vain to upload some photos with no success, I gave up! I hadn't told any of my friends or family about our blog because I was going to give it up and feed my facebook addiction, however it seems Neil did tell everyone so I am somewhat committed!
The story therefore continues and I shall do a quick reckie of 2008 to date.
We saw the New Year in with Dem and Helen on Sydney's harbour side and put in a mammoth 10 hour sun drenched wine filled afternoon. The fireworks were fortunately worth it and we did actually managed to stay awake and sober enough to appreciate them, just! We had a great week in Aussie and as well as catching up with the girls, we spent time staying with Lou & John and Viv & Ken. Great to get out of town to the Blue mountains and up to Newcastle as well. As a Sydney virgin it was definitely well worth the hype it gets and really glad we got to pay a visit.
On our return to New Zealand we met up again with Dem and Helen who were continuing their travels and there was no rest for the wicked. We finally plucked up the courage to utilise my sky diving birthday present from Matt et al. They seemed to think jumping out of a plane would be a good way to symbolise my 30th birthday, brothers! It only took me six months to do it but am now very glad to say we actually got down in one piece and we also quite enjoyed it! It was a long day, as we met Helen and Dem at 11 am but didn't actually manage to jump until 5 pm because of the weather but it was eventually well worth it. We spent the night camping in Rotorua, enjoying a few beers.
Us girls then also completed NZ's finest one day walk, the Tongariro crossing, in a very respectable 6 hours. We were rewarded with a night in Sarah & Gareth's luxury ski chalet in Ohakune and a dunk in the spa and obviously a few more beers! After spending the weekend with Dem & Helen in Auckland it was sad to see them go back to the motherland but it meant that more visitors would soon be on their way....
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