alana goes away

on my way! the love of my life and away we gooo hahha hamiltons finest warms and i on the raz Same as last year I flew in to Auckland and went to stay with Claire in Hamilton. She picked me up from the airport with Tui her dog and we went straight on to her house. Our other friend Vomle was driving up from Masterton to stay the weekend too which was nice, so we just milled about eating burger rings and drinking beer till she arrived.  The next day we headed out to JMs mothers farm to check out the cabin he's been building for the past year. ~On the way out there we stopped at the supermarket and Vomle surprised us with a bottle of that super awesome choccy milk that's all the craze up there at the moment. JM has his blog here > Cabin Man <  if anyone fancies a look. So nice to drive in NZ again, with the farm and fields and no one on he roads, ahhh so good. With theeee most hilarious take off on the farm kubota with...

I was heading over to see Sam in Paris the weekend before I left for NZ, and he made the mistake of saying, 'Hey I was going  to buy us tickets for Disneyland as your Christmas present...but then I didn't'... Completely independent of all my waaaa-ing he surprised me anyway and got us tickets. So exciting. SO EXCITING. We headed out there an hour later than we were hoping to get out there, once a lazy-ass, always a lazy ass hahha, and I'm fine with that fact. The lines were longer than I anticipated, but a hell of a lot shorter than Hong Kong, according to a nice lady I was semi in line with. But oh! The fun! The sights! The rides oh my. I'd been put off of rollercoasters after visiting > Vinpearl Land < in Vietnam with Sam on our way over to the UK in the beginning, so was a little like oh god am I really going on this ride that's theme seems to be 'rock and roll + Aerosmith, loosely based around that movie Armageddon' but boy was it fun. It...

So back in September Sam and I went to Greece for a sailing holiday. We'd not been out of the UK for a holiday for ages...or the whole year I think, so it was extra exciting. We flew in to Corfu to meet up with a friend who was working there, the same one we'd been to Venice to meet up with last year. Sam also had a friend moving over from NZ who was meeting us there also, and he was to come on the sailing trip too. FUN FUN. It rained half the day that we first got there, but meh, the next day was nice. We got to go swimming and eat and drink and it was amazing. Got ourselves to a toga party (as the friend we were staying with works for contiki so we thought why not hahaha) which was, indeed, as messy as expected. We then flew to Athens with Brendan to get on eh boat and go sailing for the week. Boy. Hot. Fun. Swimming. Eating. Drinking. A backflip or 10. Annoying the shit out of everyone haha. I'll just add this link to > Medsailors <  rather than try explain wh...