Kudos Business Apartments Mangere

... trying to locate some floor space! By the time that Larissa, Brent, Maureen, Emily and Issy arrived with pizza we were at least ready for sleeping later.

Lucy and Dan had a great time showing Emily and Issy around their new house and showing them their toys. They had been so desperate to do that all day. We have to say a big thank to the Parks and Maureen for saving us. We are pretty sure we would have gone hungry and would have just worked ...

... besitzerin eines vans nennen... das auto ist abfahrtbereit... wartet nur noch darauf, dass ich es abhole...
das entscheide ich aber morgen spontan.. je nach dem wie ich mich fuehle... sonst muss das abenteuer neuseeland - im van - noch einen weiteren tag warten...(wartet ja schon seit 2 wochen)

ich melde mich bald wieder...freue mich mal was von euch zu hoeren..
ganz liebe gruesse ins kalte deutschland,
mele

... wir herzlich willkommen geheissen von Daniel, dem Farmer, einem alten Typ mit unverstaendlichem Dialekt namens Kelvin sowie einem Ehepaar aus Fiji, das auch fuer Daniel arbeitet. Wir durften in der Bush Cabbin schlafen, einer winzigen Huette aus Uromas Zeiten, in der es von Ungeziefer nur so wimmelte. War zunaechst nicht so schlimm, bis direkt neben meinem Kissen eine riesiege Spinne sass und ich meinen ueblichen Panikanfall kriegte. Die Leute aus Fiji rueckten zum Glueck gleich mit Hammer ...

Kia Ora! That mean's "be well" in a native language here in New Zealand or commonly used to say 'hello'.
Life in New Zealand is starting to settle down. I am now in my second week of school, and I am beginning to get back in the kick of things. This past Saturday of "O"-week the residents of IH all went to the Auckland Zoo. To be honest, I was not happy about being there for a duration of ...

... All went well - I'd tablets left to kick the headache to touch and on the bus we got - wrecked tired. OR so I thought. Dave the other english guy who'd gone to bed before me told me I was a good singer and bust into stitches of laughter. Not such a good climber though. Apparently it took me 20 minutes or so to negotiate the ladder and it was only with a friendly shove from him that I made it. MORTO! I'm still trying to figure out the song I could have been ...

For anyone who is a 'Lord of the Rings' or 'Narnia' fan then New Zealand should definitely be on your list of places to go. On the way to Mercury Bay we stopped off to go on a walk to a beautiful beach called Cathedral Cove. One of the scenes of Narnia was filmed there and its so strange but breath taking seeing it for yourself. Everyone groaned at the idea of going for a walk but a stroll in New Zealand is nothing like a stroll in the park at home. Everything is ...

... as they pant and puff their way to the top, I steam my way through. 'He's a machine!' you may be thinking, alas this is not the case, I am just aware that the day is a wasting and even though Rob said to take a day off, I want to get stuck into some more Axe-mania! An hour later I arrive back at the house ready and raring to chop. Before I can rage-release, not that I actually have any rage to release the amount of wood I have been cutting, Andre and I get stuck ...

... headset Harry, a couple of machines across going for it for all his worth, with the headset on the bridge of his nose and the treadmill going at a fair rate of knots (faster than mine anyway.) But it's going so fast he can't keep up and he's slowly and irrevocably being propelled towards the end of the treadmill, with his arms at full stretch and holding onto the bar, and has to literally haul himself back up closer to the bar or be ...

... has been since Matt saw them last. We also got to catch up with Jenny and the Croft family who are kindly putting us up whilst we are here. Our first evening was spent catching up on news from both sides of the family. The following day we went into Auckland to make some plans for our time here and to change our tickets to Chili. We are only going to be here for 2 weeks as we are keen to ...

... the sea.


We
took off our sandals and rolled up our pants, and walked upstream,
flanked by steep 100 ft walls of black sand dunes, that looked
untouched by humans or animals, besides the pesky sand flies we soon
found were ...