West Bound then down... [rolling up and trucking?]

Kia Ora!

Firstly we must tell you all that Kay has put up our photos to date on her facebook page, please feel free to add Kay as a friend (search Kayleigh Brand) and have a look through the thousands of snaps. We have resorted to using facebook as it is fairly easy to access, if you're not on facebook then follow this link to start using it, all you need do is start an account and search for either Kay or Ash in the top right search bar (by full name).

http://www.facebook.com/

We last left you (those of you still reading this blog, that is) in Hawera at Denver's house which turned out to be a very strange place indeed. Denver, a lovely man, made us feel very much at home and introduced us to his all very friendly friends. We spent 2 days there and decided to head further south by bus during a visit to Wanganui... The bus route took us along the rest of the west coast down to bulls where we hopped onto a second bus which took us to Paremata. This is the home of Maura and Basil and is where we have been based for the last few days.

Over the last few days we have been on the hunt for a campervan/van/car/box with wheels/big skateboard.... we have ventured to numerous car lots, web-sites and even to a thoroughly enjoyable car auction (for those of you who are aware of Ashley's eBay tendencies you will be glad to know he managed to refrain from buying anything this time!).

After a few days of searching and quickly lowering our expectations we have found our new home. He is currently parked outside Maura and Basil's home and is called Bongo. Kay shall be putting photos of Bongo up on Facebook over the next day or two as the transformation from boring people-mover to 'extraordinary new living headquarters' takes place.

Aside from the car hunt we have also visited Wellington and taken a jaunt to the Te Papa national museum (where we saw the Collosus Squid.... it's pretty big, but collosus??... I've seen bigger...) and also caught the new Baz Lurhman(?) film, Australia, at a quirky village cinema with sofa's and ice cream.

Anyways we hear that it has been a bit chilly in the UK and hasten to add that we're feeling it over here too, in fact we've both been wearing jumpers today, well it is only:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0095

Take care and keep warm.

Lots of love

Kay'n'Ash
xxx