Up North and Wills Birthday

What i forgot to mention about Easter Monday was that we went to the supermarket and bought around 8-9kg of broken chocolate Easter eggs (55 in total) They where well cheap (88cent a bag) of 5ish) and we got a bit carried away!

From Auckland ewe headed up to the bay of island and the girls headed up in their kiwi experience bus. We got a nights accommodation their and went to a pub quiz in the evening, in which we started off really well but ended up loosing :(

In the morning we went of an exciter adventure around the bay of islands, It was very fast and the flecks of rain in our eyes and the wind made it very cold. We went through the hole in the rock and round beaches etc.

In the afternoon we headed further north towards ninety mile beach. We played a little foooty with the swiss version of ronaldo called aldo, and then drove the car along the beach really fast, will did some pretty scary skids as well!

After an night in some cabins we went up to cape reinga wer there is a lighthouse and then we went to some dunes and did some sand boarding. It was well fun esp when we got some speed. We also all held onto each others ankles and went down, and then went on top of each other (will,, me, dobson and tom) down the slope! In he evening we went out for a meal as the supermarkets had all closed!

The next day was will's birthday! We spent most of the morning driving south, stopping off at the odd waterfall. Once in Auckland us guys went to watch a super 14 rugby game at eden park. It was a great game and cool atmosphere with they Auckland blues scoring loads of tries against the highlanders. What was also cool was the free beer and chips we got with out ticket! We then headed into town to meet the girls and go out for wills birthday evening.

This morning we headed to the coromandel peninsular (east of Auckland) following the kiwi experience bus which the girls where on. We found some accommodation and the went to cathedral cove. It was a really pretty beach which was used for the second Narnia film, when the kids arrive in Narnia on a beach. We the went to hot water beach and attempted to dig a hole without out the waves filling it in. We ended up just having our feet in a boiling hot pool. This evening we went out for a last meal as all 6 together and had probably had one of the best pizzas i have ever had.

Tomorrow we say a sad goodbye to the girls as they head south and we head back to Auckland for our flight to Fiji the next day!

Fiji will be different as well, we have a boula pass for 2 weeks so we can hop on and off the off shore islands. I don't know how much Internet there will be so don't know when my next post will be.

Hope you are all really well.

Josh