This was the cutest car in the world!! It had the number plate WEE QT it was so little!!


Went to the WOW museum in Nelson today which also has a classic car section. WOW is the world of wearable arts. An awards show where people enter these amazing costumes made out of anything you could imagine! Mum is very interested in this as she is designing costumes of this award show as part of her costume design degree. Really enjoyed looking at al the outrageous costumes. Nelson is where this awards show was fist run and it has since moved to Wellington as it needed a bigger venue. There were also some great old cars.

What a day I have had! For dads 50th we arranged a weekend of things to do, sailing on Thursday, an 1 ½ hour boat ride out to a lovely café for lunch on Friday, Saturday we relaxed in the morning then went exploring around Nelson and back for a party last night. Then today, Sunday we had one more surprise for dad… Sky diving. Which he insisted he did not want to do alone and so I was enrolled to go along with him!

Well let me say I was a little nervous on the way to the airport. It all went pretty quick, we were strapped into our gear, met our instructor and then into the plane we piled. My instructor was Matt, he told me he had a massive crush on a girl called Cushla when he was younger. How fitting. So cush and Matt climbed to 13,000 feet and then for some reason opened the door and jumped out!

When we got to 5,000 feet it already looked more than high enough to me. When we got to 13,000 it was cold enough that you could see your breath coming out of your mouth!

It was the most amazing thing I have ever done in my life. No time for being scared as they just shuffle along to the door and out you go free falling for 50 seconds from 13,000 feet to 5,000 feet where they open the parachute. So much fun!


Why jump out of a perfectly good aeroplane???

Today we went out to a lovely café in the Tasman National Park for lunch. You could only get to this place by boat so we caught a water taxi. Angie and I were all dressed up looking nice for a lunch for dad’s birthday. We arrived at the place to catch the taxi and everyone was dressed in their tramping gear, as most people are there to do the walks in the national park. When we had to get off the boat we felt like such little princesses as we both had jeans and high shoes on (substituted for jandels/thongs a bit later on) and the water came up to our keens. So dad had to piggy back us from the boat onto the shore. The other people must have been thinking “what a bunch of prisses!”


On the way to the café we were taken past this awesome rock which was huge and had been split straight down the middle. It's called split apple rock. We were also shown a large colony of fur seals. They were so cute.

Hey everyone,

Hope you all have a really awesome easter and eat lots of chocolate. Have fun wherever you are and whatever you’re doing and remember Cushie loves you xxx


This is my lovely house in Nelson. Mum has moved here from Wellington (New Zealand) to do a degree in costume design. Dad is still in Hong Kong and Angie is doing uni in Wellington and flatting with some friends.





This is the other hose next door which we are pulling down and then building another one that mum can use as a studio and gallery and maybe a bed and breakfast which she has always wanted to do. Dad wants to build it to look like a “just landed spaceship” and I think he needs to stop drinking so much wine! But the drawings he has done look really cool. A bit different anyway ;)




And this is the lovely view from our house over Tasmin Bay. It’s so beautiful! But I don’t have curtains and the sun pours in at some ungodly hour of the morning and the neighbors might be getting more of a view than they paid for!!!!



Angie, Dad and I went for a wee walk to the centre of New Zealand yesterday. It was pretty steep but the views from the top over Nelson were awesome.

Today was dad’s 50th birthday! We had breakfast with our friend Moet which was awesome!! We then circumnavigated the harbour in basically no wind and dad got the rather adventurous idea of sailing to a little island and tying the yacht to the jetty’s wooden ladder. After many attempts, and hitting the rocks, we were able to drag the boat close enough to tie it to the posts. I now know why my father has got as far as he has as he takes no from no one!


Have been to a few job interviews but nothing so far. A little hard as im only here such a short time. I think waitressing or bar work is about all I will get.

Really loving it here though. It’s so quiet and relaxing. Thought I might shrivel up and die in this small little town (Angie calls it the retirement home heehee) but it’s fine.
Missing everyone heaps and cant wait to see you all when I get to where you are. My vague outline of an itinerary is:

Definitely – Fly to Melbourne on the 4th of June for my graduation on the 7th

Don’t have a date for the rest but I will be flying to Hong Kong to stay with Dad about the 10th of June for a week.
I then go to England (or to Doha hopefully depending on getting a job!)
November 6th Phuket for Ravens wedding!! Yay I get to be a beachy bridesmaid!

Keep in touch so I can catch up with all of you when I’m traveling. Those of you not in those countries I will see you on the way back maybe! Keep in touch!
Lots of love Cushla

Hello all my beloved peoples!

Hope you are all missing me like crazy. I miss you! Thought I would get this blog thing going as everyone else has one and I want to be cool like them. Seriously no, just want to keep you in the know of my shenanigans as I travel the world. Make sure you write to me and I will write back to you I promise. And then whenever I get to where you are we will party Cushie style and show everyone else on the dance floor how to do it. (m2006 – especially if there is a wall! haahaa)

Love always Cushla xxx