The last week has been mostly uneventful. Markus and I both decided we could have shortened our trips by a week and probably been just fine, so we have been the masters of useless/ meaningless activity.
Like Markus losing at the card game pleasantly named "shit-head" or as Jim would say the Indian girl's name Shithead.
This is what happens when I am about to strangle Markus with a seat belt (i make him use a camera to keep him busy).
But the last week hasn't been completely uneventful. I sailed an old sailboat on the ocean... fun.
Hung out on a beautiful harbor for a few days, ate some awesome fish and chips, and took a lot of pictures.
Before we made it back to Christchurch we stopped at Mt. Cook - the tallest mountain in NZ. This mountain is in clouds for 250 days a year, we had 3 days of bluebird skies. (FINALLY!) The views were awesome, the water was the color of blue highlighter, really really really cold glacier highlighter.
Mt. Cook sunset... pretty sweet. But not as sweet as the stars. There are probably 5 times as many stars visible in the sky compared to the northern hemisphere (i don't know it was just a guess, they were amazing).
A view of the glacier (left) and Mt. Cook to the right.
We saw some big rocks too. (I had to laugh that i paid thousands of dollars to come see some giant rocks on the other side of the world. At least i wasn't the only one.) This place was called elephant rocks. They filmed some of the most recent version of The Lion Witch and the Wardrobe here.
"You little sailor you!" Some ancient round rocks. Again, thousands of dollars for rocks. 
Yup, so that's about it. Lots of time in the car, lots of sun (yah, and some tan too).
This is the catholic church dead center Christchurch, just across the street from my hostel. Not bad. Oh yah, Markus lost his passport. Not recommended when in a foreign country and your flight leaves in 2 days. So i carted him off to the police station, airport, blah blah blah... note to self, don't lose your passport. I am excited to see you all (i'm probably talking to a total of 3 people who actually read this). pray for safe travel, good conversations on the airplane... that or extended periods of unconsciousness. :) I get back in the states about 10:40 am so if you wanna call me i'll have my cell. And to end this portion of the blog i will leave you with words of wisdom.
Never pet a burning dog.
3 comments:
the lighthouse photo pretty much rocks my world. hope you had an amazing trip!
sweet pictures. you still owe me some of Levi...right? Glad you liked his new face...its pretty sweet. I'm sure we'll see you soon!
Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day. Look forward to seeing you, Nate.
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