Queenstown - Christchurch

Ok so it was a bit too early this morning after last night but hey it was well worth it! Unfortunatly there were 4 of us leaving early today so having an ensuite was a bit of a pain!

I had to meet the bus up the road at the Bungy Station, there were quite a few faces from last night looking the worse for wear stuffing McDonalds burgers!

I had bumped into my bus driver from the North Island - Kozi in Altitude last night and he was teasing me that the bus I had today had no air conditioning! Turns out he wasn't joking!

Luckily I got a seat near the front and under the top window so it wasn't too bad apart from the bloke sat next to me was always cold! Weirdo! The rest of us were sweltering!

We stopped in Cromwell for breakfast and the bottom bus was there! Rob my driver was doing the route again - poor sod he works so hard! So we chatted for a bit and also some guys that had been on my bus in the Bay of Islands when I first arrived in New Zealand - we constantly bump into one another! It'll be the last time I see thme though as they are spending christmas in Dunedin!

We headed back on the bus and towards Twizel, we dropped several people off and Sarj, our bus driver was like no one else is getting on here so I jumped into an empty seat and guess what a girl gets on! She sits next to me rather than Mr Weirdo (that's the name I've given him!) and she says that apparently the pick up had been confirmed but Sarj had no record of it! Bloody Kiwi Experience!

We headed up to Lake Pukaki and stopped at the visitor centre. From here you are supposed to be able to see Mt Cook but it was really cloudy over the mountains so we didn't see anything. It was really nice where we were though and the sunloght made the lake really blue! It's freaky how the colours are so amazingly clear here!

We then went to Lake Tekapo for lunch. We stopped here for half an hour which I didn't feel was long enough, it was so beautiful! Although we could see the Church of the Good Shepard from the picnic tables we were at it was on the other side of the river so after lunch Sarj drove us around there! It's such a tiny little church yet it appears on so much New Zealand promotional material I expected it to be bigger! Such a lovely place though!

From Tekapo we drove straight to Christchurch with a stop in Geraldine for people going white water rafting.

In Christchurh the weather was pretty awful! I headed over to the information centre to get some gumph on Christchurch the I headed back to the hostel. My hostel - Base is right in Cathedral Square and it overlooks the cathedral. It's really nice with a lounge area outside my room just for the Sanctuary (the floor I'm on is girls only and called the Sanctuary).

I met up with John and Kedeesha (from the Bottom Bus) and we went searching for dinner. They ended up wanting sushi which I'm not a big fan of so I ended up at Subway!

Back in the hostel a new girl had arrived in my dorm who had just arrived from Australia so we stayed up hours chatting about what's she's planning to do here! She also has 8 weeks like I had but she's going to buy a car instead of doing the buses!