Michelle and Brent

April 10, 2008 7:30 pm

"Cheers Mates"
As all the New Zealanders and Australians say around here.

We are now on our Contiki tour. After Wellington we caught the ferry to Picton in the south island. The ferry took about 3 hours, with some of the most spectacular views. We then hopped on a bus into Christchurch that afternoon. Our tour started the following day in Christchurch.

So far so good! We had a lot of time on the bus on our first 2 days of the tour, but saw some wonderful things, made it to the west coast and everyone on the tour is pretty cool!

Yesterday we hiked up a glacier and out onto the top of it which was amazing. A good climb and freezing for the hour we were out on it. The coolest part is that the glacier is beside a rain forest and has no snow on it, just ice.

Today we are in Queenstown. Arrived last night and went up the mountain side gondala for a delicious buffet dinner. Today we wondered around the town and did some shopping. I went on a Canyon Swing, which is essentially a bungy jump, in a canyon, which you swing out over. Crazy scary! and I cried, but fun as well. Although I dont think I will be doing anything like that again. I dont even like rollercoasters that much. Also on a side note, it was a thousand times scarier than sky diving cause you had to jump yourself.

Tomorrow we have a full day hike on the Routeburn trail. Brent goes for his bungy jump the next day of the first bungy jump bridge ever done by A.J.Hackett.

Thats all for now. We are both doing well and looking foward to the Ice Bar we will be going to tonight.
BYE!!
Michelle