We have managed to survive two weeks on the Liver Cleansing Diet. That means no alcohol, red meat, dairy or processed foods. We are now onto phase two, which means as well as the above we cant have chicken or eggs. Luckily fish is still allowed.

I haven’t lost any weight on the scales, which is quite frustrating, but I have lost 2% body fat, so that is a big plus.

I am starting back with my trainer tomorrow, so I expect the weight to drop off me from now on.

I’m guessing no one is reading the blog now our travels have finished and Mum and Dads computer is broke, so I can rattle on about a load of poo (which by the way, hasn’t been quite right since I started the diet). I think/hope it’s the high fibre and seeds that are causing the odd texture. I think Mike is having odd ones too.

Anyway, all is good in the land of UK. It’s quite nice not having to worry about where to go, where to camp and if the bears going to eat us in our sleep.

I saw in the news that the Kawarau Jet in Queenstown has crashed.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10534245

I must say I am not surprised. We went on the Kawarau jet in Dec 2006 and it was dodgy then.

Here is the blog I wrote at that time.

Jetboating Blog from December 2006

We took the Kawarau jet boat ride as it was based in the middle of Queenstown and had a mixture of lake and rapids. As we had both been jetboating before the 360s didn’t really scare us, but it was fun laughing at the other people screaming. And the driver did manage to drench us, it was freezing.

The scariest bit was on the rapids when we did a 360 and ran aground. It was lucky we didn’t tip over. The driver couldn’t get the boat started again. It kept sucking up stones into the jet. Meanwhile we are drifting out of control on the rapids. There is silence in the boat. I am not enjoying this one bit. Finally the driver had to drift out into deeper water and thank god he managed to get it started. I must say I lost all faith in his abilities after this and the rest of the ride wasn’t so enjoyable.

He commented that the river wasn’t as low last week when he took a tour out. Surely they should check out the state of the river before taking people out.

We are finally back in our flat. The tenants left the place a bit grubby, so they are paying Mike to clean it. At least they didnt trash the place.

We are still waiting to get broadband on. In the meantime we are using a poxy mobile broadband thingy which seems to be really slow. It may be just poor reception where we are.

We have just completed day 4 of the liver cleansing diet and haven’t strayed yet. Only 52 days to go.

Mike has a job interview next Tuesday. I am trying to avoid work and agents. I dont think I could cope with work this soon after our long holiday.

We’ve been back in the UK almost a week now and have been spending more than we did on holiday.

We bought a bucket of a car for £400. Lets hope it lasts a few weeks at least.

We also bought a macbook (apple laptop). We are rebelling against windows due to its stupid OS. My laptop will soon be converted to linux. Brother John will be pleased.

We hope to move back into our flat on Saturday. I really hope the tenants haven’t trashed the place.

The weather has been nice, though a little cold. But at least it isn’t raining (yet).

I am preparing for 8 weeks of liver cleansing and Mike is job hunting to try to avoid liver cleansing.

We are now back in the UK after 10 months of travel.

We spent the last few days in the US camping on the west coast. There were no bears thankfully. We spotted loads of spouting humpback whales on the coastal drive. It was pretty cool.