19th Feb - Me, Han, Kylie and Stu woke up and said bye to Ro and Char before hopping in the bus. A lot of people from our group were doing the glacier walk in the morning so we went for some walks instead! We got dropped off to do a walk up to a viewpoint which gave us an amazing view of the glacier. I moaned a bit on the way up (standard) but told myself I was working off drinking calories so I got on with it! We got back on the bus where our driver drove us to another location. Some of the boys on the bus had to get off and move some rocks to allow for us to drive down a deserted road. Stuart said 'they should of asked me, I would've done it all on my own'. When the rocks had moved, the coach was parked up and we got out to walk to the top of a mountain. It was a struggle cause it was so steep! But we went all the way to the top for another NZ Kodak moment. The bus looked sooo tiny from where we were standing as we were so high up! When we got back down to the bottom, we got on the bus and shortly after we needed to move the rocks back again. So, of course, Stu got off this time in order to prove his named 'strength'. He went for the biggest rock and despite all his efforts, the rock did not move an inch. Lol! The boys all helped and soon enough we were back on the road.
The coach drove back to pick up the rest of our group who did the glacier walk. With all of us in tow, we drove for a little while until we stopped off to visit the Mirror Lake (Lake Matheson) where we saw the reflection of Mount Cook in the lake. It was beautiful! We grabbed an (expensive) panini for lunch and got back on the bus.
We shortly stopped off at another location to have a picnic (though we had no food - cheers for the heads up Vaughan), so we just got bitten by sand flies instead. At least someone got fed!
We drove through the township of Haast, through the mountains and through Makarora before arriving in Wanaka. We saw Lake Wanaka from the coach before being dropped off at the hostel. It was pretty late when we arrived, so after a trip to the supermarket we made 'gourmet' chicken burger curry. It looked better than it tasted, surprise surprise! After dinner we went to watch a movie in the sauna AKA the TV room. It was stinking hot in there!! My body was physically stuck to the sofa! When we got sweaty, we retreated to bed.