Hi there..we did our time travelling and survived!!!! The Cook Islands are just amazingly fabulously astoundingly fabulous!! Absolutely love it here, I thought Bali was good, but this is sooooo much better!! The weather is roasting..even when you're doing nothing you're sweating (can you imagine what thats doing to poor doug?!?!?) and our apartment looks straight out on to a fabulous lagoon with fab blue water, white sand and crashing waves..the people are so friendly and nice and we've already managed to find some drinking buddies to help while away the nights!!

Suppose Id better tell ye about auckland first though eh..although it pales in comparison to here, everything does, summer hols will never be the same experience for me again!! Sorry..auckland, ammm our apartment was fabulous, perfectly central and lush which was cool, am trying to think what we did, got drunk probably a lot..oh no wait I remember now we got to see Joe Rockokoe in the flesh...yummmmmmie!! Oh he was fabulous, we managed to get out to see the Auckland Blues play the Queenstown Reds (very imaginitive with their team names over here!) in a warm up game before the Super 14 thing starts..oh there was lots of lovely rugby men there, and they all hung around after the game to give autographs and pictures..I got a few of my Joe, maybe one too many for a married woman but hey ho!!

We did the bungee rocket aswell..ahahaha that was fabulous, we got the video evidence to prove it and its very funny..doug was sh**ting in his pants before we did it so much so that he started to make me nervous but he's very glad he did it now, but like me, will never do it agin!!

After that I think we drank and ate as usual..made a big night of our last night in NZ which resulted in a humoungous hangover for our time travelling, but we managed it and arrived a day behind from when we started!! It was very exciting!!! Auckland was just anpther city for me I must admit, whilst I absolutely adored BOI and Coromandel P not sure Id be rushing back to auckland, although always good to say you've seen it!!

Right must away back to the pool before I melt into the ground..may this week never end!!! I hear the UK is all snowed under..maybe we might get stuck out here..Iv already left my passport practically outside my front door in the hope someone steals it!!