The day really started when we caght the bus to Dunedin to have a look around and go certain places, the first place was a church called the first church which we passed by on the way to the chinese gardens. Aparently the whole structure for the chinese gardens was moved all the way from shanghai. There we learned a form of showing you're rich, the taller the foot stall in the door way was the richer you were. For us all it was wierd and joked about if you were too rich you would need stairs getting over it. Then we visited a hobby shop to look at warhammer, my brother got off task and brought some yu-gi-oh cards meanwhile on task dad found a new way to play. After that me and my brother ... read more

I have added a map of our journey through New zealand so far to my first blog entry - I thought this would show with the entry however you need to select to see the map. Hopefully I will continue updating this map as we go - maybe I should get the boys to do t as they are more tech savy... All are having a great time. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUE, sorry we didn't get through on the phone this morning - something else that probably should have been allocated as a task to the boys, they may have got through. Enjoy your holiday. Love Donna xox... read more

When we woke up there was snow everywhere and even on cars. Unluckily because of my sore foot I missed out on going in the snow before it melted this morning so I didn't get to play in the snow like I wanted to. My foot is sore because when we were at the hot springs yesterday I stepped on a sharp rock and cut the underneath of my right heel leaving a deep but thin cut and a larger cut. Dad and Mum took me to the doctors today and he said just to keep it dry and not get it wet so that it can heal on its own. We saw lots of snow covered mountains on the way to Queenstown and even some snow on the side of the roads. When we got ... read more

Well we finally got around to updating the blogsite - first day we have had intenet access so far, looks as though our blogging may be hit and miss while travelling around New Zealand. Just had to add a picture for you all to see - my little snow angel, isn't he beautiful, even if he is a little confused. Donna... read more

today we went to mt john which is 1000m above our camp we started to see snow about half way up when i started to throw snowballs at everyone and they returned fire (except for mum). when we got about 900m above camp there were small blankets of snow but we weren't allowed to throw snowballs unfortunately but we made it to the 1000m mark i went to the big blankets of snow i was about 1m away when i was called back to go down the mountain because there might be a storm. on the way down mum and i had a pine cone fight we were nearly at the bottom when mum hid behind a tree and mum thought she out smarted me,not really,so i snuck on the other side of the tree and ... read more