BenandCharmaine

Today was a bit of a chilling day, mentally preparing myself for tomorrow morning for the Nevis Bungy jump at 9am. You know what this means...not going to drink tonight as i dont wana be throwing up whilst freefalling 134m... na... not cool. So we had a little shop around, grabbed some lovely junk food. Enjoying the summer sun, chilling out on the beach or walking anywhere without a worry in the world..well only money of course but we'll forget that one. Tonight we didnt plan to go out as had to be up so thought it was a bad idea. About 7pm came around...hmm...met up with most of the guys that were doing the bungy with me tomorrow...shall we grab a cheeky one when its happy hour...na...actually yer i suppose 1 wouldnt hurt...well its still ... read more

Up bright an early today….great!…not. Na wasn’t too bad even though you can see many people do not like the early starts but as were heading to Wanaka today it was a 6 hour journey but we have many stops planned apparently. Today was ridiculous with the stops, there must have been about 6 10min stops for random crap. A breakfast stop, a waterfall with an optical illusion (in the pouring rain), a food stop, a stop to eat the food, lake wanaka stop, another lake stop. Every 2 bloody minutes, you know most people are trying to dose off and then he comes back on the microphone blabbering away. Jesus give it a break man! Anyways we eventually arrive at about 3pm, straight away to the supermarket which is literally behind the hostel, end up ... read more

I managed to sort out some stuff on the internet and banking etc and then about 12:30 the next bus arrived with the people that we left in Nelson. We met up with Phillip, Tim, Holly, James, Jamie and Jenny, along with all the other people on the previous bus. We had a little chat and then I went in the hot tub..erm yer when I say hot I mean hot…turns out the thermostat had been changed and not set correctly so it was reading about 45degrees instead of 40. Now 5 degrees is a big old difference. So I was in there for a few hours while Charmaine was having trouble with the internet, bless her. Turns out the memory card is too big for the poor computers here to read, so she spent all ... read more

Today up bright and early no problem, about 8am ish and the coach was due to leave at 9am. We were heading to Franz Josef. YAY…A place we have both been looking forward to because of the amazing scenery and the glacier walk which I cant wait for. We took a short trip to a place called Pukekura. We stopped and went into a café/museum of a famous guy that used to catch the deer in New Zealand when they were ruining the countrys rainforests. It all started when they tried to introduce mammals on here as it was only birds that were on the island. The put a few animals, possums, deer and a couple more, they soon realised that the possums were killing everything and they still have a hold over them now, if ... read more

Today…first thing…not feeling too bad. Quite impressed with ourselves really, maybe the hangover hasn’t kicked in yet, quick Charmaine get them ibuprofen..oops sorry I mean ibufofen….(haha…private joke) On the bus we all got, some people were so tired, some people were so ill, some people were still even drunk, it was a funny morning I think everyone went full out…silly eh! Now we have about a 4hour bus ride to River Valley. Today we stopped randomly at a waterfall…JP the bus driver said did anyone want to jump in?…he said it was about 3m, so willing I said yer why not, its not that high…we all walked down this path to this lovely waterfall and as we looked down….what a liar, no way was it 3m, it was more like 7 or 8m, bearing in mind, ... read more