Seeing the world through a big green bus

After many comments (and shocking myself) about how long my last few posts are i have made a vow with myself to keep all (most) future updates to a nice, brief length :)
However everyone who wants to know what we have been up to in intricate detail should check out Megs blog!

Since leaving Hawaii we crossed the time and date line and spent 7 nights in the tropical paradise which is Fiji. It was an awesome week with awesome adventures. We took the yellow boat to the three different Islands included on our "Lazy Threesome Tour" and enjoyed a week of (some) sun, snorkeling, kayaking, eating, crab racing, swimming, stargazing and generally chillaxing in style.

It was then time to fly onto New Zealand where we are now. The guys (Dobson, Josh, Tom and Will) met us at the airport and it was rather surreal to be seeing them half way around the world after so long... We then hopped on and off the Kiwi Bus with them following behind in the car all the way up to the Bay of Islands. There we took a ferry across to Russell, went to a pub quiz and took a very high speed boat trip around the Islands out to the hole in the rock. We then all squished into their car and drove up to 90 mile beach where lots of fun was had by all. We spent the night up there and the following morning drove up to Cape Reinga and walked the short distance to the lighthouse before heading off to the sand dunes. There we rented boards and clambered up the long steep slope and crazily boarded back down on our bellies - although it only lasted a few seconds it was definitely worth the climb :D We have also been to cathedral cove and hot water beach before saying our goodbyes this morning and heading onto Rotorua with the Kiwi bus where we went white water rafting down the largest waterfall in the world - in one word: exhilarating!

Tomorrow we head off to go caving and see the glow worms so all in all life is pretty jammy travelling around in our big green bus.