after a long day of driving we arrived at christchurch only to find that jonny forgot to book accomodation haha, so we were lucky to get a room. we went to the casino on the sat for my birthday and had a nice meal. i still blame my dad for making me bet on 36 because i was sure on 26 and 26 came up. you owe me $500 dad! haha it was a good night but the dress i had planned to wear (like the only nice thing i had in my backpack) decided to shrink in the wash so i...

on the way from dunedin to lake tekapo were the moeraki boulders, these are really round boulders next to the sea on the beach and they look pretty cool. the drive to lake tekapo was amazing, we went past some glacial lakes and the colours were so vivid and clear like powder blue and deep greeny blue. it was stunning. lake tekapo was really nice and the hostel was ok except the really sqeaky bunk beds, really, it was sooo annoying that one of the girls just p...

arrived at dunedin after a nice drive from queenstown, the hostel was a lush old building and apprently very haunted. we went on a trip to the cadbury factory! yey, so we got free choccy and watched the stuff being made. i asked the woman why the chocolate tasted different to english cadbury's because the driver of our bus was told on a tour they put a waxy sustance in it to stop it melting, but the woman told me it was coz the cows eat different food... yeah r...

after a long day on the bus we finally arrived in queenstown. it was alot smaller than we had thought, and really pretty and nice. it was a nice place to walk around and eat and it had a market etc. there were constant parachutists flying overhead with it being the adventure capital of the world. and it has some crazzzy bungee jumps! the hostel was quite nice but i nearly punched a foreign guy who wouldnt turn his music down at 1 in the morning when i had to be...

on our way to franz josef we stopped at a greenstone factory in hokitita, that was quite gud watching the carvers doing their thing. we then went to a teeny town called ross to do panning for gold... i was rubbish and got all of two specks, stupid gold panning. $6.50 my bum. i couldnt even find the piece of jade they actually put in your dish before you start haha. we arrived at franz joseph and the southern alps to our caravan. this stoneage caravan was rubbis...