Lindsay and Ryan Do the World 2008/09

We got on a bus yesterday and headed to Mount Cook. The bus was packed!!  It was a Japanese tour bus too.  omg.

Mount Cook was beautiful.  It is the highest peak in New Zealand.  Edmund Hilary (the guy that climbed Mt. Everest first) has climbed Mount Cook as well.  30 metres of snow fall on this peak every year.  It has snow on it throughout the whole year too.

We had a two hour stopover at mount Cook and then got back on the crammed bus and headed another 5 hours north east to Christchurch.  This city is nice.  Not too big, not too small. We went and got groceries today and drove around on the free shuttle bus.  We are trying to book our next bus ride to Wellington (north island) today.  We also have a ferry ride tomorrow which is supposed to be very pretty we here.  We are meeting up with a couple of friends we met in Queenstown in Wellington.  That should be fun.

Nothing too exciting has been happening so that is about it for now. I will write again after Wellington.  Miss everyone.  Bye!

Well, we got up at 6am today and went to the most beautiful place!  Milford Sound.  Its about 4 hours away from Queenstown. We took a bus there and the driver was very informative.  He had a lot of interesting things to say about New Zealand. We were exactly halfway between the equator and the south pole today.  That was neat to know.  While we were driving along, there were 1000s of little waterfalls pouring out of the moutains (it was a little rainy the last two days)  We took some pictures but it doesn’t even come close to what it really looks like.  Its breathtaking.  The pictures or videos don’t do it justice.

 We got to Milford Sound and took a small cruise boat out around the fiords.  We saw fur seals laying on the rocks.  We also drank straight from a waterfall!  It tasted good too.  We went out into the Tasman Sea and the waves here HUGE out there.  We were going over them with the boat and the waves were crashing over the front. Ryan and I were standing there and we got soaked! lol.

 We went under neath a waterfall that is 3x the height of Niagara Falls with the same force! Not nearly as much water runs over it but it was still something else.  The mist alone soaked everyone, especially Ryan. haha.

 We got back to Queenstown around 8pm, it was a long, great day. We just got back from pizza.  It may have been the best pizza I have ever eaten.  Sundried tomatoes, chicken and brie cheese. omg. 🙂  We are going to stay in Queenstown one more night and then head to Mount Cook (the tallest mountain in New Zealand).  Should be fun. 

I will write again after that.  Bye.

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