Today we have been back to Arrowtown for some lunch. I was really disappointed with my chicken pie and am sulking- well, telling Steve alot about how unfair it is- he had a lovely pie. We go to visit a closed ski resort on the way back and then park up the car- lets walk up here a bit says Steve, "do you want to?". ( I later turned this into Duwer wanna? really wanna? Duwer? Why would you? We tramp up hill to the bend, around the bend is another hill-...

Today we did a proper walk- not just normal walking but TRAMPING! We tramped the moonlight trail which got very high up, had brilliant views and drops over the side which left Steve shouting"don't look" and "come away from the edge" and "get your backpack on straight- this is no time for messing around". It was great and we walked for 3 hours including our packed lunch. We met 4 girls on a bike ride coming the other direction. Wel...

Today we flew to Queenstown- simples. The views we flew over were stunning and I was wishing i had the skills, time, could be bothered to stick to it etc etc to make a patchwork quilt of the plains. They were regimentally marked out with straight lines but some crops were grown in ovals, circles or even cake like segments within the whole. The colours were great and the patches of homesteads could be beads. I have no pictures because the camera battery was flat ...

We are going to a cabin up in the mountains for 5 days.It's 15k north of queenstown. This is what nz is about. Been here 2 wks seen AucklandWellingtonOhakunePictonChristchurch Now we chill

We just had a moving few seconds. I thought it was a very heavy person running up the stairs, then it carried on vibrating and also there are no stairs, so I just had time to say " that's an aftershock" and it stopped. Wish we could have captured our reactions on film, Unaware-surprise-shock- relief. All in a matter of seconds Imagine our happiness when we got upgraded to a big apartment on the Tuesday 2nd (we decided to stay another night) Imagin...