jamiemonks

OK, we have loads to write up at this point, so it might take a couple of sessions to get it done, but we'll do as much as we can before we get booted out of this library at closing time. Thursday 29th May - Charlotte's Birthday Thursday morning saw us waking pretty early, I had quite a bit planned and Charlotte was just generally excited. As she was showering, I threw my clothes on and set off down to the supermarket for some supplies for the day. I was dressed for the heat but was greeted by a miserable rainy day and as a result, spent the entire trip to and from the supermarket seconds away from killing myself, my flip flops getting no traction whatsoever on the increasingly wet kerb tiles. I checked our ... read more

Saturday 17th May - Napier, Wairoa Well as we finished our last entry, we start this one. Having made our way to Napier we thought it about time to get a blog entry done, as we were doing loads of stuff and it was pretty hard to keep track of. We arrived there before any of the internet cafes had opened so we had a walk around the town to pass the time. Napier seems to be a nice place, lovely buildings and very clean. We stopped for a picture by the church, the fountain outside of which was gushing bright pink water. We couldn't decide if this was intentional or wether someone had done it for a laugh, but if it was intentional it would be a genius publicity ploy by the church, as person ... read more

Over to NZ Monday becomes Tuesday Our flight from the Cook islands was at 7am, so we had to be up pretty early. Luckily we'd managed to get hold of the airport transfer company the night before after days of trying and had at last arranged a pick up for 5am. We were packed and sat outside at 5am, providing a mosquito buffet for quite a while and there was no sign of our pick up. We thought that as we'd booked it late on a Sunday afternoon that they may have messed up the booking, but just after we went inside to ring them at about 5.25, they turned up, much to our relief. On arrival at the airport, we were all decorated again, this time with big long shell necklaces, as we left the ... read more

Hey, This is the first entry so it might get pretty long but here goes... It's 6am and I've been up a bit... still not quite kicked the jet lag i think Also I apologize for any crap spelling, this keyboard sucks and I'm sat in the dark trying not to wake anyone. Flights After a pretty boring trek to Heathrow and several McCrappy meals, we were making our way through the vast city sized airport that is Hathrow. Check in was amazingly efficicient, there's these Virgin atlantic computer box contraptions into which you just poke your passport. Seconds later yor whole flight schedule is on screen and you can check your seats and change them if you want. Then you hit go and it prints all your boarding cards. All you do then is hand ... read more