16th April- Went to see Lake Matheson, amazing veiws as its a very still lake and so has a perfect reflection of the mountains above. Then walked up to see the bottom of the Fox Glacier, very picturesgue and really nice weather for it!

17th April- Woke up very early as we were going on a day hiking up the Franz Joesph Glacier!! Very fun, spent the day clibing in ice caves and through ice tunnels. Very bruised from it and very surreal standing on a large piece of ice in the middle of a valley!!

18th April- Drove to Wanaka! Has a mooch about. Visited one of thier vineyards, prepared our dinner and then went to the Wanaka cinema which has sofas to sit on, its only small and they server gooey, hot, fresh baked cookies in the interval. We saw Mao's last dancer (very good film!!)

19th April- Drove to Queenstown, stopped at a cheesery for a large amount of tasting on the way. Mooched in the shops, Steph booked her bungy jump and then we left late afternoon to get down towards Milford Sound.

20th April- Day kayaing on Milford Sound. Has not quite appreciated the sheer size of Milford Sound until we were on it!! Very nice weather and stunning scenery!!

21st April- Had a chill out day, did some laundry and ate cake. Dried our washing on a homemade washing line at the side of the road....good times!!

22nd & 23rd April- Drove to the Catlins, very eventful journey but one to be told when Im home!

24th April- In Dunedin, went to Speights brewery tour in the afternoon, history was a little irrelevant but seeing a gravity brewery was very interesting. Then we had a burger for dinner and then went to see the Higlanders v Hurricanes, rugby game!! Veryy good fun!!

25th April- Drove back up to Queenstown

And now we are having some time in Queenstown, Steph and Beth are both Bungying tomorrow. I got a haircut today atlast and also some quite shocking news!! Very excited now!! We ate now going for our first Ferg burger experince!!!!