The Long way down....

Well after yesterdays miss haps we have had one very brilliant development, we arrived! It was a long and pretty painful journey here but now that we are here it's great! We have had a wonderful welcome from my cousins, Sue, Pete, Mark and Bexs(huge thanks to them). In fact everyone here seems really nice and all in all I am feeling pretty good about this trip now that we are out of the air even though it has only been a day.

I will update this more tomorrow to give you the details of the day but right now I am way too tired and Jet lagged and need to sleep! Hope everyone is ok!

Joe

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OK so I didn't get round to blogging what we did on our first day yesterday so I will give you a quick update before I get my arse in the shower. Which actually brings me to the first point, a warm shower and clean undies are the worlds best thing (save hugging Sarah!). Still I will leave it at that because otherwise you will get me started on taking things for granted and blah blah blah....



Once we got all our stuff sorted and took a little look at Sue and Petes' wonderful house, we went down to a beach on the west coast. It was awesome, the waves where HUGE! I mean I consider myself a strong swimmer being a life guard and all but I could't even stand in that let alone swim it was mental. There was this huge rock in the middle of the beach that the waves bashed up against, slowly eating it away. It was called lion rock and it was dedicated to some mauri people who died during the war, we climbed up near to the top and it was brilliant. The view was amazing and it gave us this real peaceful feeling, away from the beating wind and waves. After a while just sitting up there watching the waves which looked more like ripples from up there we walked back across the beach to the car. We then had these awesome wedges at this place called the elevation cafe, which had the most amazing view of Aukland and the surroundings. It is very different to the UK, everything including the city is wraped in this elabirate greenary of trees and bushes. Overall very much an awesome place just to look at, oh and real food again YAY!