I promise my two
week break is coming to an end – actually I have been back for 4 days and have
already planned a mini trip for tomorrow evening and Saturday! Okay now back to
the end of my trip …
It was a really
rainy day Thursday - not fun because we
missed all the beautiful mountains on our drive out of the national park but I
can’t chance mother nature J
view from Mt. Cook when we woke up
We headed out of
the park and stoped at another glacial lake – Lake Takapo. This lake is
amazing!! Beautiful scenery and the bluest water. After a quick outside photo
stop we headed to the hot pools. They are huge hot tubs outside and it is sooo
popular in NZ. Us girls didn’t really feel like getting any more wet so we sat
in the café and had some yummy hot coco/coffee and I had a tomato soup which was
deeelicious! Brittany states it perfectly in her blog our “spirits began to
brighten as I warmed up and dried off.”
Then we headed to
Rangitata – the rafting capitol of New Zealand. Just our luck that the rafting
season ended 1 day beforehand – so we didn’t really have much to do. The whole
bus stayed in this really nice lodge (we were the only ones there). The rooms
were kind of cool because there were three tiered bunks!! I slept on the bottom
so if it would break I of course would have died first J (I didn’t die).
This lodge was on
a really big farm with cattle and sheep so me, being in NZ, wanted to find the
sheep and hug them. Off Brittany and I went to go find some sheep to hug in the
rain! As we moved closer to the sheep (BAHHH-ing really loudly) they ran away L. No sheep hugging for me (for today that
is).
*no pictures but really funny video of us - sorry
What was left of
the afternoon was spent relaxing and findng a hostel for the next two nights in
Christchurch. Tonight was the last night of our bus trip – they would drop us off in Christchurch in the morning
(Friday) and we had until Sunday morning to find stuff to do.
people watching Austin Powers
Our driver
(Swede) made all of us dinner – he made
salad, garlic bread, and really good lasagna with fresh vegetables in it as
well. It was really good – not as good as my moms but it came pretty close!
Our original bus
group got together and we all played card games, chatted, and played spoons. It
was really a lot of fun – we stayed in the same hostel in Christchurch with
them as well.
spoons!
Alright one more post until I am done
telling you about my holiday! I will share Christchurch with you soon J
26 days till Jeff comes!!
48 days till America!!
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