Invercargill was very nice, though we didn't really do anything too exciting apart from get a Chinese takeaway and go to the cinema to watch 'Rock n Rolla' which wasn't too bad at all! From there we headed to Dunedin, which is meant to be a Scottish town, although apart from the gift shops and a few of the buildings we couldn't really tell. We stayed in a little hostel just out of town which had a resident dog and cheap rooms, as the yha was fully booked. We had ...

Friday night we went out for dinner at a thai restaurant and then went to a bar called minus 5-which is literally minus 5 (or 7 when we were there!) degrees, but we were given a coat and gloves and a cocktail included in the package. Everything is made from ice-the walls, the seats, the bar and even the glasses we had our drinks in! They had lots of ice sculptures of rudby players and maori masks- It was definitely the prettiset bar we've been in and was very coo...

From Franz Josef we headed to Lake Wanaka where the weather was a lot better! It was really sunny all day so we had a little stroll by the lake and had an ice cream. We stayed in a little hostel called 'The Purple Cow' which is the best dorm we've been in so far! We were the only people in a 4 bed dorm and had a btahroom to ourselves too! From Wanaka we headed to Queenstown, stopping to climb up "Iron Mountain' along the way which was a rather steep walk, ev...

Yesterday was such a nice warm, sunny day, so naturally it was rainy today as we went on our mini glacier hike! It took us about 40 minutes to walk from the bus drop off to the edge of the glacier, then it was straight on to the ice! Luckily we took lots of warm clothes it was quite cold for most of the journey, and the rain didn't help! I think we were probably on the ice for about an hour and it was very pretty but hard work too! We had clamp on things attached...

It was a bit crazy on the US election day over here! We walked into the tv room to find two Americans glued to the screen (One of them was wearing a 'Go Obama' t-shirt) and they educated us a bit on their election. when Obama won the American lady kept taking photos of the tv screen (she must have had about 100 photos of the news reader, and I'm not even kidding!) and then they whipped out some champagne and gave us a glass to celebrate with them! Then thher husb...