Today we went skiiing!! It was great fun but there was a distinct lake of snow, more grass really. WE didnt' do anything too taxing as neither monica or i wanted to break anything. You realise, when skiing in nz, that europe is a pretty high class place to ski, we did everyrun except the blacks in one day, and we would have done those if it hadn't been so icy. I think it was a particularly snow free zone though today as all the pictures we saw of Cardrona (the sk...

we are in Queenstown!!! its amazing! probably one of the most beautiful places ever invented, a lake, mountains and skiiing! We went horse riding today it was fantastic fun. We trotted through rolling hills with deer beside us and an amazing panoramic view of mountains with a river running at our feet (or hooves). All of which was very lord of the rings! Then we accidently climbed quite a large mountain, well not really, we just thought it was going to take 25 mi...