Well here is my last post [Live] from NZ. I’m in wellington we drove down this morning and mum and dad ar in te papa but I decided to come and blog instead. Our plane leaves at 3:30 so that’s kind of nice I can come home and sleep in my own bed and have a shower that delivers more that 4 drops per minute.

I have to say that I am now quite a liker or wine, I have had a lot of wine over here and I’m really getting into the stuff, so I think its fare to say that I’m now a wine drinker.

Yesterday Dad and I went on a jet boat tour of some river, that was fun, clold and windy but fun. There is so much wind over here its crazy.

New Zealand drivers are crazy, I think tom picked up on it in his blog a while ago, but there is really no point in councils wasitng their time and putting line markings on the road, NZ drivers don’t follow and lane markings, street signs or anything really they just drive,

All in all its been a prety good trip, a tad boring in parts, reminding me of armidale, but not too bad.

I never want to be an adult and have adult conversations, they are so damn boring

“yes I like arcitraves I must say”
“mmm they’re nice arnt they”

“what about this wall over here?”
“well I think I might make it a light purple”
“oh that would be nice’

“I’m thinking about replacing the aluminium window frames with wooden ones, what do you think?

It just goes on and on for hours and hours…

I don’t think I’ll mis musch of this place, even though its quite similar to australia its also very different, Its good to see most of the stuff in supermarkets is made is australia, there is even a rumour that australia makes New Zealands money.

I had green wee the other day

Wellington was fun, after my last most I went to Te Papa and had a look around then just explored the city chops and streets and stuff, I had a good old time.
Then it was on the 6:18 train to masterton, which arrived at featherston at 7:15 where mum and dad where waiting for me.

Yesterday we went out to the east coast, that was a bit of fun, crazy little gravel road that twisted along the waters edge up over rocks and stuff, there was one place where the road had been washed away so they had built a “temporary bridge” and small cars could use the bridge and big cars had to drive through the water and rocks and stuff, we took the bridge.

At the end of the road was a lighthouse and there was a big staircase leading up to the lighthouse which was on the top of a cliff. 252 very step steps….good thing I’m so buff.

Then last night we went out to dinner with my grandma, auntie, uncle and cousin to a French restaurant. They where playing hooked on classics, very tacky. I went to the toilet and found that the urinal was in a cubicle. Very strange.

I think this will be my last internet usage in martinborough but I might go to an internet café on Sunday morning when we go down to Wellington, before I come home on Sunday afternoon.

well my wind famr entry is back but my 2 from this morning have siddapered now…:(

anyway i did end up[ meeting with chris and jem here in wellington, i went to their youth hostel but they wherent there so i sent them an email saying to meet a te papa at 10am, i then went and had some breakfast at maccas, as i was leaving maccas jem shouted out to me, so there it was jem had a great idea that i was probably in maccas, and there i was.

We drove around and went to the top of oe of the hills overlooking wellington where we played some ‘choice’ frisbee.

then we bought some food for lunch and walked around wellington. They had to leave because they are catching a boat to the south island at 3:30 so now hre i am alone in wellington until my train at 6:18 tonight.

I have to say its a bit of fun being in a strange city all by myself, i’m having a good time exploring, i want to find some sort of bungee acticity but the information centre isnt being all that helpful.

ohwell

must go and explore now..

oh and ryan, i bought a new frisbee, its a new zealand firsbee, i bit like the regent.

Well I got up damn early on Thursday morning, and had my shower and packed my bags for NZ, I managed to all my packing in 10 minutes which is quite good I think for an international holiday. I trained it to the airport and met mum and dad at the Qantas check in desk. My mum went off duty free shopping and we almost missed the plain due to her going “what about these ones do they look good” “or how about these”. Yep the final boarding call was announced just as mum was paying for her new sunglasses. Walking down the gangway to the plane just in front of me was george Gregan, you know the Australian rugby captain. The whole ACT brumbies team was on our flight. They all had new ipods and where spending the flight telling each other how good they where and ho they can change the equilizer to ”
R’n B mode”

We arrived in Wellington and my auntie and uncle and grandma where waving to us, then about 20 minutes later my cousin from scotalnd appeared behind us out of the gate, she was on a different flight. Dad went off in search of our hire car and in 1 hours time he returned with the keys by this time it was just me mum and my auntie as the others had left with my uncle. We got in the car and began the drive to Martinburogh

Due to waitangi day I haven’t been able to blog, the only public internet access in this town is the one terminal in the liberary, but the liberarty isn’t open on weekends or public holidays and the last 3 days ave been either weekend or a public holiday.

We are staying ni a small cottage 3km out of town, it has a tv which is nice but that’s about it.

Th e wedding was a bit of fun,

It’s a bit like being in armidale, stuck in a little house in the middle of nowhere with nothing much to do. Mum and Dad seem to be enjoying it but I get bored sitting in the middle of nowhere doing nothing.
I have improved my Frisbee skills though, I have found a good time filler is throwing a Frisbee, you throw it then walk to hwere it lands then throw it back and so on…
I have also bee practicing throwing the firsbee through a fence, I stand a few metres away from the fence and try and get the Frisbee to go through the fence, hmmm maybe this place is more exciting than armidale.

Its not really all that bad, i’m having an ok time. I wouldn’t be upset if jo was here though.
Its good seeing bits of my family again, although I keep finding myself slipping into a new Zealand or Scottish accent depending on the company.

I’m not quite sure where my mum and dad are today, I woke up and they are gone so I walked into town to use the net.

I wanna go bunjee jumping.

Well peace out dudes.