NZ

Unfortunately we have no further pictures to post of New Zealand because we were silly and mailed them home before updating our blog. We are really bad at this. We can give a run down of highlights verbally however, if you are game to read it. Here we go:

After the Pancake rocks we moved further down the coast to Fox glacier, where we went on an all day hike across the glacier. It was amazing. It is one of the few glaciers in the world at the time that are growing. They cut out the steps with an ice pick as we moved along. We drank from a pure glacial pool and went through some glacial ice tunnels (tony is next to me throwing in all the "Glacial's", it is cute). We then headed south to Lake Wanaka. There we visited puzzle world (the only thing to do there if you went bungee jumping), and spent two hours in a maze. We ended up cheating to get out... so sad. When saying the name puzzle world you are required to sing it to the theme of Waynes World. Next we moved to Queenstown where we indulged in chocolate bliss every day (one day twice) at Patagonia's. Tony has turned into a chocolate fiend...who knew. We met up with a friend, Hampus, from Auckland and he and Tony went mountain biking. We made a quick drive to "middle earth" in Glenorchy, very pretty. We travelled south along the southern scenic route, stopping at Milford Sounds, penguin watching and sheep dodging, to the southern most point of the south island. Heading around the tip to the city of Dunedin to the Cadbury factory... again indulging in ridiculous amounts of chocolate. North to Moreaki Boulders where huge almost perfectly spherical boulders rested on the beach. The pictures are amazing, wish you could see them! We stayed here for a couple days and headed north to Omaru where we saw 200 blue penguins storm the beach. It was so cute, they were so tiny, and the babies came out of their nests to greet them and beg for food. We also saw about 28 of the rare yellow eyed penguin which is one of the rarest in the world! Very cool. Inland, stopping at the elephant rocks, that look like elephants, to the clay cliffs, reenacting the scenes from Indiana Jones. Back to the coast, for a nice Thanksgiving in Fairley. Then on to Christchurch where we sold our Chug :(, and :), making new friends at Stonehurst hostel, Brian, Stuart, Inga( thanks again for waiting up with us till 4am for the airport ride), Ana, and meeting up with Hampus once again...then on to OZ! (in a nut shell)