We've been everywhere..........
We've been to Hamner, Kaikoura, Rarangi, Picton, Mistletoe Bay, Nelson, Marahau, Takaka, Totaranui, Collingwood, Puponga, Wharariki Beach, Farewell Spit, Pataurau, Pakawau, Parapara, Pohara, Queen Charlotte Sound, Wellington, Dannevirke, Norsewood, Otane, Hastings, Napier, Waipatiki Beach, Mahia Peninsula, Mohaka, Wairoa, Gisborneeeeee, Tatapouri by the Sea, Whangara (of Whalerider fame), Tolaga Bay, Tokomaru Bay, Ruatoria, Tikitiki, Te Araroa, East Cape, Hicks Bay, Waihau Bay,Te Kaha, Opotoki, Whakatane, The Mount, Tauranga, Rotten Vegas, Te Puia, Karapiro, Hamilton, Auckland, Whangerei, Russell, Pahia, Kerikeri, Mangonui, Opua, Oakura, Teal Bay, Helena Bay, Orewa, Remuera and Eden Park............and we shook the hand of the man who shook Johnny Cash's hand! And yes country music has gained an upperhand on this trip including Johnny Cash. We've been everywhere........!!
And we got to see lots of friends and rellies (unfortunately not everyone along the way), but for those who we didn't call on you were all thought of along the way! And now it is time to fly home after an amazing 8 week road trip...... its time to head home to Twizel with a few days in Christchurch en route.
There have been lots of highlights but some of the best were:
The Orca pod on the East Coast
The road trip around the East Cape in a great week of warm weather
Wellington with Jane, Mart and Zoe
The All Blacks Irish game at Eden Park in the rain
The Indian restaurant in Roturua (Tandoori Star)
Our time with Iain, Pauline and Anna in Auckland
Visiting Russell and seeing old friends from that part of the world and realising part of your heart is still there
Fish and Chips at the World Famous Mangonui Harbour F&C shop on the wharf
Sailing in the QC Sound with Robyn and Mac
Camping at Totaranui for nearly 2 weeks and all the visits from friends and sister Helen
Camping on the beach at Patarau
Lots and lots of wonderful times and memories amongst great places, and with friends and family. Thank you everyone for making the trip so special. We will always treasure it.
Haere mai and arohanui
from the Young Ones Sara, Kate, Sue and Rob
posted by Rob Young @ 9:04 am
22 comments
22 Comments:
Hi Sue, Rob Sara and Kate,
soundz like your trip was pretty full on glad to here it was so good.
It is very cold here today, snowing again, and cold.
Looking forward to seeing you guys home
Jacq
Hi Country Music fans! Yes you have been everywhere man - wow!
Jacq you beat me! I thought I was going to be first, so despite our recent e-mailing Sue, I thought I'd get in here and blog. We have aborted the trip to Timaru, the roads are sounding a bit dodgy. We are aiming to get a 4WD soon, would have done it pre-winter if we had been more organised. A bit of snow here this morning, but more down country and perhaps more to come. Josh is disappointed about not going to stay at Brian's so Ali has asked him to go and play there this afternoon anyway. Talked with Helen this morning, about how we are all so looking forward to having you back in Twizel, but how we will all need to be very repectful of your family space and need of quiet times.
Did you get to Kelly Tarlton's yesterday?
Stay warm in CHCH (It's warmer here today than yesterday morning, that was very cold!). Dean says Mac is in CHCH so I guess you may see him. Take care. Love, Sandy and the Redheads.
Come on bloggers - where are you? Are you all snuggled up in front of your fires and heaters on this cold winter day? - Sandy.
What a journey. Love that litany of N.I. names and how wonderful to have a warm week going around East Cape.
It must be cold further South as even here in "sunny" Nelson it has been very cold for us marshmallow landers.The Mt Arthur range is plastered in snow.
Put those sun/snow glasses on and head south.
We kept a copy of the aerial pic of Twizel covered in snow. 211 Mackenzie Drive looks rather white!
Love Mart,Jane & Zoe
Power's back on - snow's melting, school's back. ANd it;s due to snow again. Will have to make a two roomed igloo this time round. Hey wowzer - you have been to loads of places!! Can't wait to get to some of them myself!
About to start on some marking that I should have been doing earlier this evening, but between supermarket stockup, emails etc - it's almost cold o'clock where the breath is making itself visible against light and dark surfaces in my bedroom...time for a hotty, or a hot water bottle, whichever is most available (hwb i'm afraid) te he, I already ahve a hat and merino good to boot, so you folks get back safe, keep warm and I would love to have a chat and catch up over the phone or in person.
love and take loads of care
Trace
Hey man haven't bloged here in AGES, i guess because its my 1st free art period in a while! Might just be a short one. Were behind in every class except maths, see maths is cool! Well well jonny cash ay? What ever floats ya boat! You guys and my parents! Yeah so you heard about the snow here, i want MORE! lol i no thats greedy but i love snow! just so long as you guys can get though burkes pass. Yay can't wait till u come down! Gosh uve been to lots of places, it sounds relly cool when you read that list aloud! lol i'm in teh arrt room by myself so i hope no one saw me doing that. Shame! well thats al teh random ramblings i have for today!!!!
love you xoxox caketin
hey guys
sounds like you had a wicked trip! so jealous. its great to hear that you had such a good time. i've been home now for a couple days from lincoln, another week to go and then back into study! ive been trying to get some work done, but theres so little that can be done in this weather! its been very chilly down in little old Owaka, fortunately no snow...yet. keep in touch and i mite see you soon.
love josh.
p.s. good to see there's some more country muzik lovers out there! hehe
you've been everywhere man, you've been everywhere.. ... and back in time for a Happy Birthday for Rob. Cool... literally! and yup its cool here too, good ol' sou'westa blowing down the valley.
Great to hear the rest of the journey went well.. just hope you can get to Twizel!!
lots of love and warm hugs for a great birthday day!
PS just about to make some more haybales... hows your supplies???
Kia Ora my big S.M!!!
loving the abrevitation!
haha i did what caitlin said and jeepers it is a mouthful!!!
sounds like you had the bestest times ever!
Now that your back i hope that you get through ok in the snow!!
YEESSS!!!!! anther johny cash fan! i can now talk publicly about my obsession, hehehehe!!
hope that chch is treating you well, missing ya heaps, catch up soon, S.M kate xoxox
Hey Youngs.
Sounds like you trip was mad sick fun. Bet you cant wait to get back to snow covered twizel tho. I wish I was there, ohau is gonna be rad as this season.
well take care
Safe
Jory
Heres to Rob getting another year older.
We can hear you sing you song, yes you have been everywhere, sounds like a great trip.
I just about missed the update. Must have been sleeping or partying, I think it might be the latter. I was out with our "spinny weavers" last night celebrating the longest day. Heres to midsummer here. I have decided to wear shorts even though theres some goose bumps sometimes. Had burgers on the barbie tonight.Now I'm sitting here thinking of all of you down there in cool NZ.
Take care enjoy the great Mackenzie country when you get there.
love and hugs from Ruth and Krew in Kitimat.
hey gurl
cant wait 2 catch up wit you ae! u bak in cold boring old twizel yet? well if you are... then you'll probabli notice that nothing much has changed... same old same old pretty much! oh apart from the snow lol. YAY! only EIGHT sleeps until we go 2 nationals! i cant wait aye. u know mike darling from the top hut?? yeah well he's taking us and hes paying 4 transport, supplying his van (so we dont have 2 take the hoary old brown school 1 lol) and the other day he gave us $40 each for delivering paphlets for the top hut. wicked aye? and we've been doing a bit of fundraisin 2.we had mufti day on friday and made like $100 and then we've got sum raffles so if youre in twizel... u mite just have 2 buy one aye? and every1 else thats reading this blog! lol. bailey and ruby say hi! with a big cheesy grin! lol anyways gurl i besta be off... ima tell u all my goss when i see ya next.
much luv ma gurl xox mwah!
Keep Warm Young Ones!
Dad keeps telling me how cold it is down under and I have put up pictures in my office that bro Steve sent to prove that NZ does get snow!
Happy Birthday Rob, will sing it for you in the shower tonight and yes the cabinet is sound proof!!
We hope to go to Bowren lakes tomorrow for a picnic so hope we get to hire a canoe and go for a paddle.
Next weekend a camping trip to Smithers!
I will make this short for other bloggers and cheeses 2nd note (grin)
hey sara sounds like you'v been having an awsum time. was gud to get a few txts from u on the way to :) i only jst read the blog and am hopeing that u rnt back in twizel yet, and if when u catch up with cheese i could cum c u 2! hope u get home safely. thinking of u always love tesh :)
Hi Young One's,
An awesome trip , have been thinking of you all , particularly as the snow fell in Chch !
luv ,
Deb & O
hello!
how are you?
hope your spa was good as,
keep smiling
love ya soul mate kate
xoxo
Hi Young Family
Well the weather got hot and the fires came so Steve now on standby for the weekend, so no trip to Smithers.
Instead we will have a Happy Hour at our place tonight followed by a bbq for those who want to stay. It will be about 8 of us, one from Aussie land, one from Germany, one from Mexico, one kiwi and the rest Canadian and two little munchkins! It should be fun.
I hope the weather is warming up but still snow for you to ski.
hugs Quesnel Canuks.
Hi Guys
My word you have been everywhere!My Rob's old stamping ground up north!
Just a wee note to welcome you back to the wonderous south...sorry to you northerners but ....the south is very hard to beat!!
Tis my birthday today...23 twice...and guess how I am spending it...scrubbing the bum of our new possession..a Young 88 without a mast!Yes it is a "work in progress"..but it means the poor old trailer-sailer has to go boo hoo.
Well you guys take care bye for now.
Lots of love Janine,Rob,Sam and Sophie
hey dudey,
IM BACK FROM NATIONALS! just thought i would make a dramatic entrance lol. it was ok aye. i took 2 visits 2 the emergency department at the hospital while i was there though lol. sum lil chick (who i later found out was only 14!) smaced the ball into my face and i had to go 2 sum random doctor who then made me go 2 a eye person at the hospital who then made me get xrays. in the end all that happend was bruising close 2 the bone and concussion and trauma 2 the eye or something. so anyways, i got over that and then the VERY NEXT DAY... i smacked me knee realli hard and was like carried out 2 the 1st aid room and got laughing gas and everything. and then i was taken in a ambulance with sum central dude who dislocated his shoulder in rugby to the hospital YET AGAIN! where me and krista honestli had 2 wait so damn long! i had to get MORE xrays on my knee. and yeah. apparantly its just bruised and ive torn a ligament or something like that. damn does it hurt though! im so gutted! but krista, cody and jason made it into the nz teams. lol krista was the only white gurl, and the only 1 from the south island. pretty hard out aye? we had a good game against north aye. we only lost by 19, which is real good considering that last year the score was like 54-3 lol. and the boys lost by 7 guttering aye? it wouldve been wicked to have you there with us tho bub! we needed sum1 loud cheering us on 2 outcheer all the northland gurls lol.
much love 2 you gurl, we have to catch up some time.
love always,
shazta
Hi to all the Youngs,
Weather here in Melbourne is cold, windy and wet. Not enough rain though only drizzle. I hear that NZ has had lots of snow. Wish we had.
Go AB's!! What a good win last night against the Wallabies and of course I was barracking for the AB's.
If Aunty Carol, Helen or Ruth read this I would really love to hear from you. My email address is susanloschiavo@hotmail.com
I miss everyone in NZ. I am bringing the kids home in September so really looking forward to that.
Thinking of you. Love to you all.
Susan xxxx
hello
are you going sking today?
it was so hard to get up this morning! mat need a sezza nap at lunch hehehe
gota get to class lol
love soul mate!
Hey Sara
CAitlin here just saw this open on cheese's name so thought i'd post a comment :) honestly haven't been doing much worked all holidays at a holiday programme and just got paid today so was stoked :0 been reading some a ya postcards to cheese sounds like ya hada lot of fun! U like totranui? thinking bout going up that way for new years this year but to tahuna where we went last year which was great great times! Coming up in school we have this inter house competition for multi sport my house is gonna clean up!! Especially since im playing :p but a part from that not much goss holly had her year 12 formal on the weekend she looked mint in this white dress with black polka dots her partner had a matching tie which at the start i thought coulda been pretty cringe ya no but they pulled it off. Anyway hope that ur feeling good ur awesome lots of love from Caitlin xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
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