I guess it ain't over til it's over...
Our last night in Auckland, Justin and I were bumming around the streets.
This man walks up to us and says 'hey, you boys wanna make some money?'
Always the opportunists, we hopped in the back of his car and were taken to a storage unit outside of town.
I was convinced he was going to chop us up, but he turned out to be a nice guy.
He had us sort and organize 2.2 tonnes of donated cellphones. The phones were to be refurbished and sent to 3rd world countries.
This was a trial run, as they are getting 100 tonnes next month. I couldn't believe how many Blackberrys and Palms get thrown out.
Kylee and Danielle from Fraser Island were in Melbourne the other day, so we hooked up with them and partied like 12 year olds. One of the best nights of the trip.
We are currently sitting in a train station waiting for Aussy Phil to get done school. We're going to hang out at his place tonight and see the kangaroos in his backyard.
Tomorrow I hope we will be on a train to Sydney.
For fun I ate at Hungry Jacks for lunch, and I feel like yarking all over the keyboard now.

All our bags are packed, we're ready to go...
Wow, almost 4 months ago Australia and New Zealand were just a twinkle in young Justin's eye.
Now we've conquered both countries, it's a pretty great feeling.
I wont drag this blog out. We have a few more days, but with our bank accounts and energy levels running on empty, I'm not anticipating any shinannigans.
We've made it back to Auckland in one piece.
We're spending the night, site-seeing tomorrow and then spending tomorrow night in the airport before our tuesday morning flight.
We are flying to Melbourne Australia, a city we both really wanted to explore but missed first time around.
My main man Phil has been nice enough to give us a tour of his city, and let us crash at his place for a night (or three {-: )
From there we have to make our way back to Sydney for the long journey home. I don't know what's more depressing, the 24 hour flight of the fact that Detroit Michigan is the light at the end of the tunnel.
It's been a hell of a journey. Thanks for reading.

On the road again....
Justin and I have left everyone we've met behind, and we're on our own once again.
We spent the night in Kaikoura, one of the nicest towns I've ever seen.
We rented tennis rackets and played near the beach. With the help of some 'creative scorekeeping', Justin won.
We stopped at a seal colony and hung out with some foul smelling fur seals. I was filming one when it decided to crap all over the place.
All the bus drivers have nick-names for different types of kiwis. People from Auckland are called 'Jafas' (just another friggin Aucklander) or Auckies, people form Dunedin are 'Dundies' etc.
The name they used to describe people from 'Kaikoura' was shocking.... They had been using this word for 3 years, probably offending many people. Justin told the driver it wasn't ok.
We are hopping on a small 4 person plane today, crossing the 'ditch' from the South to North island.
On the way down we took the 3 hour ferry- the 25 minute flight is only 9 dollars more.
It's a pretty leisurely cruise back up to Auckland. Everyone on the bus is broke and partied out, so it's a much more relaxed atmosphere.
I have all too much time to sit and dwell on what the hell I'm going to do when I get home.
Maybe I'll open a Fergburger franchise...

I heart Queenstown.
I did the Canyon Swing yesterday. This is the prize Justin won at the 'Poo Pub'.
They strap you onto a cable attached to another cable that's strung across this huge canyon.
There are 18 different ways to jump, I went for the backwards fall. There is a 60 meter freefall before the slack of the cable starts swinging you horizontally.
You swing 200 meters horizontally reaching speeds of 160km/h.
The swing was about 10 times scarier than the bungy jumps I did in Auckland.
Today I'm tackling the big guy- the Nevis bungy.
The Auckland bridge bungy was 43 meters, this is 147 with a 9 second freefall.
Justin and Andrew swear they are doing the bridge jump tomorrow, I have my doubts.
We are in Queenstown for two more nights before we head up to Christchurch.
From there we head North, completing the loop of the South island, cross the ditch to the North island, and back to Auckland.
From Auckland we fly to Melbourne for a few days, then probably hitchiking back to Sydney, and flying home.
Welcome home party?

Heartbreak.
I finally made my goal weight to go skydiving. I found out today that the company I want to jump with has different regulations and I'm now over THEIR limit.
Screw Flanders, I'm eating pizza tonight.
Last night both kiwi buses went to the 'Poo Pub' for a 'no clothing' themed party.
People wore shower curtains, wrapping paper, one girl wore only her backpack.
I made a three piece suit out of some tarp and plastic bags, Justin naturally dressed up as a robot. He won the best dressed contest.
The prize was a free canyon rope swing which he gave to me.
We've made two great friends with a couple of English lads, Andrew and Ryan.
The four of us did a two day kayak trip up the coast line. The scenery was nice, and we saw some seals, but we were so unprepared it was a pretty cold and miserable trip.
We've split up with everyone else from the original Auckland bus. I hope you are all doing well.

Must...... update......... blog.........
The past few days have been a blur.
Every day has been packed and we have very little down time. Justin and I decided to take a timeout and stay in Wellington for an extra night to recuperate.
A few days ago we took on 'The Abyss'- a 5 hour extreme cave tour.
With wetsuits and helmets we repelled 250 feet down into this cave. We strapped our harnesses to a cable and did a 100 meter 'flying fox' swing down ever further. From there we all got on rafts and went black water rafting in the dark. The whole ceiling of the cave was lit up with glow worms.
Planet Earth did a segment on the cave we were in.
From there we had to squeeze ourselves through tight jagged rocks, climb two waterfalls and find our way out following the light.
The next day we did an 18k hike up a mountain. One of the toughest things I've ever done, but I did it. Justin and a few others broke off and tried to climb the big mountain (Mount Doom in the Lord of the Rings series) but they quit about 10 minutes in.
The whole climb took 8 hours.
Today I'm going to try busking with my friend Nick from Syracuse.

Reunited, and it feels so good.
Justin finally made it to Auckland late monday night.
The next morning we boarded the kiwi experience bus and began our journey.
It started off lame. We all had to go to the front of the bus, introduce ourselves and say whether we were green (single) yellow (kinda single) or red (not single)
This company is very well set up, and although we are going to miss the freedom of having our own vehicle, it is a nice change to sit back and have someone show us around for a while.
I made a really close friend with a girl I call Vegas. We played poker on a sandy beach for my birthday.
My birthday night wasn't too crazy, everybody was tuckered out from the first day of adventuring.
We are never on the bus for more than two hours without stopping to do or see something.
Some highlights so far were Hobbiton (the city built for the Lord of the Rings movie) natural geysers, Rotorua which is town that smells like rotten eggs, nature walks, street lugeing down a mountain, and a bunch of really nice beaches.
The weather and scenery here beats Australia hands down.
Today we are going to Taupo, which is the party capital of the north island.
Justin says he is going to do a bungy jump today so I've been messing with him all day.