Helen and Denise

Day 17 Woke up this morning after a freezing cold night the coldest we've had so far because it was clear skies! Set off on our last adrenaline adventure... White water rafting!! AMAZING! we were taught how to raft with another couple in our boat and then we were let loose on the river. we rafted over fast flowing rapids and waterfalls (one being the worlds biggest commercial rafted waterfall 7 meters high!!!!) Denise was at the front of the boat being the lightest and was nearly (infact was) too short to reach the safety foot hold! but they still let her go! And was seen smiling in every single photo shot even though she could see the whole waterfall and was going down first!! Boat nearly went over at one point but we managed to ... read more

Day 11 We have spent the last couple of days trying to survive major storms! We have called ourselves The Storm Runners rather than storm chasers! In Christchurch after we wrote our last blog the weather got really bad and we heard that the road we had just come down (the major state highway 1) had been closed due to land slips, so we were lucky that we got through when we did. It rained all night AGAIN, and we were woken in the night with a 'glug glug' sound, we leapt up because we thought we were floating but it was the sewage disposal over flowing and was something else floating not us!!!!! we woke up in the morning to floods and at reception they informed us that christchurch was cut off so we couldn't ... read more

Day 6 Found internet cafe so going to try and upload some photos! excuse the grammer on our previous blogs we dont have time to go back and check! due to money time for the internet.... read more

Day 3 We set out after writing our blog to see the glow worms...however the tourch was not working. We did not want to miss them so headed into the forest in the pitch black it was soooo scary! Helen chickened out first so we went back to the camp! The camp owner felt sorry for us so gave us the hot spa for free. It rained all night and we woke up to grey clouds and pouring rain :(! We put on our wet weather gear and ended up having the time of our lives... we went luging first which is kind of like little small go carts that you just ride down these big hill tracks really fast!! www.skyrides.nz check it out! we made friends with some people there and we all raced down ... read more