02/05/09Rich drove us back to the $8 all day parking, I then got up and walked over to the laundrette to check the prices, well expensive, $5 for a wash and $1 for 5 minutes in the dryer. I got a load of change from Countdown and returned to the camper to pick up everyones washing. No one else was up so I laid back in bed and finished my book. Eventully people started to get up, the guys went over with the washing while the girls and I stayed in the camper and tr...

01/05/09I was woken up early due to the sun shining through the curtains. We got up at about 9 and did the usual tidy up, this time it involved the girls putting some of our unused food on to the free food shelf. The guys walked in to town and the girls and I sorted out the waste and filled up with water again. Laura gave the waste a good hosing with our water hose, she must have the magic touch because it just flooded out and after about 40 minutes of listening ...

28/04/09Had a crap night because cars kept beeping as they drove past all night, some of them even beeping for as long as 5 seconds as they zoomed past. We got up at about 10 and drove the final hour in to Christchurch. I instantly took a disliking to the place as we had to drive through 10km of nasty looking industrial areas before we hit the city centre. The signs for the city centre seemed to disappear so we ended up driving straight past and had to do the cla...

26/04/09We woke up surprisingly late today, it was half 9 when I heard Rich come back in from his wee. I read a bit until 10 and then decided to get up and have some brekkie. We were all ready to go at about 11. We stopped off at the Shell to fill up and the Countdown to get some food for the next few days as we guessed it would be expensive at Mt. Cook.We left at about 1130 and I drove to Mt. Cook. We drove past lake Pukaki which was crazily blue, apparently cau...

25/04/09Woke up to find Rich straddling my body as he was leaving to go for a shower, so I got up and went for one. Spent the morning washing up the dishes and sorting out all the waste and water and stuff before leaving the campsite, we struggled to get the waste out because we had to use the hose and the thing was blocked again so we just left it. We stopped off at the Speights brewery again on the way out to fill up our water bottles from the fresh spring wate...