White island

Here are some pics of White Island an active volcano. I took the pic from the helicopter! The pic of Kels and I we are wearing gas masks because of all the sulfer gas around us. The hard hats were just the style not for safety.

Back in Pahia

We are all done filming our TV show. It was a great time but i'm glad that we're done. 5 days of filming and we did a lot of sweet stuff the Helicopter ride to white island was so sweet. It was like landing on the moon. The was nothing but rock around and a lot of sulfer and gas really cool. We also got to go to the "shire" or hobbiton for the lord of the rings. It was cool but the tour could have been 15 min and I would have been satifsifed but it was over an hour and we had camaras on us so we had to act enthused the entire time. The guide would be like "do you see that red pole over there? thats where the crew parked their trucks when they showed up for work!" I was like wow that neato... and there was a lot of boring stuff like that.
But we are now staying in whangarei and have come back to Pahia for a couple of days bcause t we are travelling with a couple of german girls and they wanted to do a sky dive so they are doing that right now and then tomorrow we are going on the dune rider up to the northern tip of New Zealand. www.dunerider.co.nz if you are interested. Too bad we don't have our film crew anymore cause now we actualy have to pay for our tours.

Earthwalkers

Well we are two days into filming now and its going great. Kelsey is done filming her show and we did so much over the last 2 days. We took a tour of the Cultural grounds around us, we had a dinner at the most expensive restaurant in the town it was an old boat turned into a restaurant very nice! We went to a Maori performance of them singing and dancing it really was spectacular. And then yesterday we went on a all day cruise and went snorkeling and that kind of stuff and then at night we went to some hot springs and chilled out in them for a while. So thats Kelsey show. We are starting filming for my show today its going to be a travel day but we will be stopping along the way to do some filming. And then to the white island for the helicopter ride!!! It is a lot of work and it takes some getting used to. Our camera man/director/producer is amazing and we are having a really good time with him and his lady. They are really cool people so its nice to just hang out with them. I better get going though. The name of the show is earthwalkers check it out online at www.earthwalkerstv.com
bye for now

Big News

Ok I'm so so so excited! Kels and I saw this application to be on a TV show and I applied not thiking too much about it. Well they showed up at our hostel today and we start filming tonight! We are doing two episodes we will both be in each episode but kels is going to host the first one and I will host the second one. The first episode is us going around the bay of island. (where we are right now) doing things like cruises and dolphin watching and going to the hot springs! I can't wait. We are even going to try to work in our friend Pete's sail boat its over 120 years old and he will be teaching us how to sail on the episode. Good thing we went out last night so that we have some idea what we are doing!!! Then My episode will be us travelling down south for about 7 hours and then taking a helicopter ride to white island, an active volcano!!!!! We have to wear gas masks on the island because it stinks so bad!! But I guess I'll have to take it off to be able to speak and host the show! They said that they will mail us a copy of the show when its done so I'm beside myself. Anyways we'll be filming for the next week or so. So if I don't answer my phone thats why! bye for now.

Useless fact time

Wanna know some useless facts about New Zealand?
-The population of New Zealand is only 5 million
-There are 1 million Kiwi's over seas at any given time so there are only ever 4 million Kiwi's in New Zealand. Thats 20% over seas!
-The population of the south island is only 1 million
-A city has to have over 500 000 people that being said The entire country only Has 1 city, Auckland.
-A JAFAR is a commen term used to describe people from Auckland it means Just another Fuckin Aucklander.
-A POMER is someone from england it means Prisnor of mother england..er.
-New Zealanders feels about Australians the way Canandians feel about Americans.
All these useless facts are just things I've heard and picked up word of mouth So I hope that they are true.
Its hard to get photos on to this comp so I hope I can figure it out but it costs money to be on the comp so its a bit of a pain.
bye for now

Hostel

This is the web site of the hostel that Kels and I are staying at. http://www.saltwaterlodge.co.nz/ We stay here for free in exchange for 2.5 hours of work a day its a pretty sweet deal. We were supposed to stay at a different hostel just down the street but when we arrived the lady told us she didn't have a any beds for us and that most of the hostels are already booked so we had better hurry and find something! So she screwed us over pretty good. But we found this place and he didn't have any beds for 2 nights but he called around for us and found the last 2 beds in town! Thank god. So we are going to be here for the next 2 weeks we are way up north on the east coast. We plan on doing a day trip to the northern tip of the country were you can see the Tasman sea and the Pacific ocean meet. They are different colours so I hear its pretty cool. And on the way home you drive in the ocean in like 2 feet of water on whats called 90 mile beach.

PENGUIN

this is a pic of kels with a blue penguin that we got to hold! He is 10 weeks old and almost full grown we were very lucky to get to see these penguins because they are going back to the wild next week. I have more pics to post but my time is running up on this comp.

Ok other than living in a tent for the last 2 weeks we've been pretty busy. We jumped off the sky tower in Auckland!!! http://www.skycity.co.nz/skycity/index.cfm?5FB8E87E-50BA-1DC3-65EA-F9A4845CF393 I think thats the web site if not just google skyjump. It was Crazy they take you up to the 53rd floor in a glass bottom elevator all I was thinking was holy shit what did I get myself into and then you go outside they strap you on to this giant cable the next thing you know your leaning over the edge and someone yells 3, 2, 1 go go go. and you jump off this building but you only fall 10 feet at first and then you have to look back up and pose for a pic. Its funny cause your hangin right in front of the restaurant and people are just eating and looking at you. hahaha. But then you fall the rest of the way down. It was so cool. It was really only scary untill you jump. After the jump its just fun. You fall 630 feet at 85 km/h and land on your feet! sweet eh.

This computer does not have a usb port so I can't hook up my camera too bad cause I've got a lot of sweet pics to post. Anyways Kels and I have been very busy over the last month. The Kiwis and one Aussie (You know who you are Cher) have been taking such good care of us and showing us such a good time. We met the nicest couple on Waiheke Island who took great care of us and showed us how to party like kiwi's and gave us the cell phone we have! Then we went down to a camp ground on the east coast north of Auckland. We can't thank the local campers that we met there enough. Kiwi's are by far the nicest people that you can imagine. We spent Christmas eve fishing! It was so sweet. Our neighbor Pete took us out. We got invited out to dinner every other night it was crazy anything that people had they were willing to share. Kayaks and fishing rods. Kels got to go for a waterski yesterday. People took us snorkling and showed me what I could eat right out of the ocean. Sea urchan (not bad) all these little clam things pick them up throw them on the bbq. (so good). We had a party to go to everynight and had a great time so thank you to eveyone!

Phone Us

Hello eveyone! Here is our phone number 021 206 1839 you might have to dial something before that to call us but I don't know what it is. Maybe if someone does know what it is they can post it in a comment for us. Like I said though its free for us to receive calls so we would love to hear from everyone! If you are reading this you know us enough to call us. And if you have shaw digital phone its a free call for you too because you have 1000 international min to use. But you need to keep in mind that we are 19 hours ahead of Winnipeg time so if you call at lunch its only 7 am here. the best time to call is after dinner I think. And if you call there is a bit of delay on the phone its kind of annoying but oh well. Ok can't wait to here from you all.