Sorry no blog for yesterday. We left the hotel just before 8am got to the coach and was told we had got an 11 hour journey to Christchurch, but this was to broken by a trip to Mount Cook the highest mountain in New Zealand.
After 5 hours of travelling we arrived at Mount Cook but it was blowing a gale and throwing it down with rain. I took a a couple of photos of the mist and behind that apparently is th mountain.
I did take a couple of other photos on the way of various lakes and a wedding in place at a church by the side of a lake, but the driver wouldn't stop said we were behind schedule.
We finally got to Christchurch about 8pm and ate in the hotel, too tired for anything else.
We got up this morning early as we had a trip booked to Arthurs pass. This involved being taken on a minibus for an hour to a train station at a town called Springfield where we went on a train up into the mountain. Sorry to those of you that have moaned the photos are all mountans and lakes but the pictures I took were all mountains and lakes!
When we got there the minibus collected us, we had lunch and then drove to a river where we went on a powerboat up the river, that was good fun with some 360 degree turns etc. We then went to a working farm to see yet more sheep, sheepdogs and shearing!!
We got back to the hotel at 6pm and finally had a look round the town, its more english than england! Its like oxford or cambridge even does punting on the river through town.
Tomorrow we are due to travel on to Fiji but we have booked a hot air balloon, we have got to wake up at 4am and phone to see of the weather is good to go or not. You will know tomorrow whether we make it or not (more pics of mountains and lakes!)
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