Off to Aus!

Its my last day in New Zealand today :-( We've been in christchurch for a week now though so theres not much left to do here.
The dolphin swimming in Kaikoura was amazing. There were literally hundreds of wild dusky dolphins swimming round us. We had to make stupid noises and sing songs at them through our snorkells to keep them entertained and in return they made us look even more stupid by swimming round us in circles which of course meant that we had to spin round, following them.
Emily decided she wanted to fly into Melbourne which meant that she could go at stupid oclock this morning or at a normal time on tuesday. understandably she chose tuesday so her and Laura are going to Akaroa to stay in her dad / aunts house. Laura has been there twice now (once with Laura D at the beginning of the week, then for a couple of days with Tom and she's driving back to watch the rugby today before taking Emily up there)
Laura D and I are planning to go to the Sydney Opera House together in the next couple of days as she arrived in Aus on thursday.
Emily and i are both shocked at the lack of money in our accounts but figured that whilst Australia is generally more expensive, there aren't so many adventure activities to do there. After that, Thailand is cheap as chips!
Emma x x x

Half way through!

In Christchurch now which is our last stop in New Zealand. Going out to Kaikoura to swim with dolphins and to Akaroa were Laura's house is but then coming back into Christchurch again.
Emily and i went white water rafting a couple of days ago which was wicked! we went through grade 1 - 5 rapids and managed not to fall out. i also discovered that jumping off a rock to go swimming in a river which is glacier fed is not the best of ideas - it was absolutely freezing!
Laura stayed with Karlijn, Laura and Emma who we met on the Kiwi bus and came to christchurch early to see family before we arrived. Yes the 2 Emma's and Laura's are confusing us too.
A group of us tried to go out clubbing yesterday - not unusual on a friday night. everywhere was empty! we had to resort to singing karaoke to amuse ourselves. we were terrible but managed to get a random guy onstage dancing. not sure how difficult that is though since the majority of the girls in the club were onstage (us 6!)
Were staying at a hostel called Cokers atm which is supposedly haunted oooooo. We all got an hour of free internet time as were on the kiwi bus which is good. Its lovely and sunny outside today though so im off to top up my tan...hows the rain? :D it did actually snow here the other day though - New Zealand is really affected by global warming.

My birthday (02-03-07)

we had a jam packed day today!
As soon as we woke up which was about 11 we went down the road to get banana pancakes with maple syrup for breakkie before heading off to Wellington's famous museum. Em paid to see the egyptian mummy section and Lau and I just did all the free stuff which, since you could spend ALL day there, was plenty!
we then had pancaked AGAIN for lunch as we found somewhere which did lemon and sugar ones. technically they were crepes the second time so we figured it was ok.
After lunch we went shopping. for the first couple of hours all Em and Lau did was spend spend spend and i could find nothing to buy! at the last minute though i found a beautiful although slightly chavy bag which i can take out in the evenings and squash into my rucksack whilst were travelling around the country.
We then ran to the cinema to catch the 3.30 showing of 'Blood Diamond' only to find it was actually a 3.10 showing. As Lau has seen it before we decided to watch it anyway and she explained what we had missed. it was a wkd film and i'd recommend going to see it!
In the evening we went for dinner in Óne red dog' which does pizza and pasta (my favourite dinner!) we were kinda stuffed but had to have chocolate fondue afterwards to finish off before we went clubbing. We met up with three guys who are on the bus with us tomorrow and they warded off all the drunk sweaty 30 year olds which was good!
Its 4am now as we got in at 3 and decided to answer our emails. I sensibly only got half an hour but had to extend it due to the 20 or so emails iv recieved since yesterday. it was lovely to hear from everyone though and definitely worth the extra 2 dollars (about 60p) I found myself with 20 mins to spare so decided to use it up writing this as were going to Nelson in the south island at 7.15 am tomorrow so the internet time will be no good after today.
Anyway, better get some sleep!
Love you all
Emma x x x x