Well, what can we say? We are now the proud owners of a VW campervan with a fridge and a flushing toilet!!!! We arrived in Christchurch on Tuesday afternoon, a little worse for wear from the long flights - when we arrived at our hotel we planned to have a quick 'power nap' before heading out to explore....unfortunately we slept on through for a whole 18 hours (for those of you who know Stace well that was the norm for her)!!!! Anyway, we awoke feeling much better and excited to be picking up our new home and to start our trip properly!
Finally hit the road on Wednesday lunchtime (after a quick provisions stop) and headed down towards Lake Takepo in the glorious sunshine. However, just over an hour down the road we got pummelled by tennis ball size hailstones so had to wait for that to clear (nothing to do with Nath nearly skidding off the road..)! Arrived at the Lake early evening - the views were fantastic! However, within half an hour the clouds started drawing in and then it started to snow - heavily (you can see a trend starting here..)! Pitched down for a cold night, (which wasn't actually too bad), and set sail again this morning, heading for Queenstown! The drive was stunning, lots of snow capped mountains and crystal clear lakes, however we did get held up for an hour along part of the road as they were blasting some of the rocks (luckily we'd made a quick cider stop earlier so actually missed being crushed - phew)!
Here now in Queenstown, which is so nice. Currently still deciding which death defying activities to partake in (still trying to convince Nath to do a bungy)! Will give you a full update in a few days. Also are going trekking tomorrow for the first time - we're preparing for lots of arguments along the way (Stace is not the best for navigating...)!
Oh, almost forgot, fitted another shopping trip in today, we're starting to think we have a serious problem!!!
Speak to you all very soon!!
N&S
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