Hello from Christchurch! Today was a long day on the bus, but I'm here safely and have just gotten back (about an hour and a half ago) from an awesome reunion dinner with one of my former HVHS students who's here in ChCh studying music at university. It was so great to see her again! Now it's just after 11pm and I'm checking in with the blog before having a (hopefully warm) shower and then heading to bed. Our last hostel had crappy lukewarm/coolish showers and it was almost painful to stay in long enough to get clean.... crossing my fingers that these ones are better!
Anyway, here's what I've been up to for the last couple days (click to enlarge the pictures):
I posed for a self-portrait at Lake Pukaki today on our lunch break. It's SO beautiful there, and we were really lucky to have very clear and sunny (but still chilly) weather!
I love Christchurch at night. These pics were taken on my walk home from dinner with Alex (former student).
Cathedral Square in ChCh = beautiful
This is the sign on the ladies' washroom at the Nevis bungy yesterday. Too funny!
Mid-bungy! SO COOL!
(Screaming my head off at this point, FYI)
Here's how I felt before and after the jump! Heh.
And for good measure, here are a couple pics from the Swoop in Rotorua! We did the Swoop about 2 weeks ago but I didn't get the pics until last night in Queenstown, as the girl in the middle had the picture CD and we left each other in Taupo before I could remember to snag them from her. We ran into each other last night so that was perfect timing!
So fun!
And there you have it! Not much else to report tonight, as all I did today was sit on the bus from 8:30am-4:15pm, writing postcards like my life depended on it (I think I wrote 30-35 postcards to my students today?!), visiting with the people in the seats around me about our bungy jumping/canyon swinging/glowworm caving/white water rafting etc. experiences, and taking pics at the various "Kodak moment" spots we stopped at en route. The end. A very long day on the bus but am glad to be having a relaxing night in Christchurch before heading off to Kaikoura in the morning. It's an early start tomorrow, 7:15am, but I think the drive is pretty focused, with not too many stops on the way, so that should be alright. I'm sure I will sleep well tonight.
Hope all is well at home or wherever you are reading this from! Arohanui!
1 comment:
Always enjoy seeing your photos...and many are places we recognize from our trip - Christchurch at night is so beautiful - think we stayed in a hostel close by (does the tram go by there?) Love the bathroom sign from the Nevis bungy - ha ha
Have fun in Kaikura! It was one of our favorite places on earth. : )
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