Current Mood: Happy

…so that’s just what I’ll do! So we arrive in Mt. Cook at night and park in some random hotel car park, eager to put our heads down for the night. We had dodged many rabbits on the way in and the concentration took it’s toll. Parked up, on a slight slope as that was all there was left, bit weird to sleep at an angle but we were all asleep within 45 mins!

The following morning and we awake to the Mountain ranges towering over the top of us, in the distance in Mt.Cook, the highest mountain within New Zealand and something that once again made us all go ‘WOW’… Today, we planned on doing a walk but spent most of the day just chilling out, on the internet and eating brekkie. Come the afternoon and we all decide that we should go for a walk, so after visiting the Tourist Information and purchasing a walk map ($1), using their loos (saves us from filling ours) and looking over all their books we decide on the ‘Hooker Valley’ walk.

We drive down to the start and all don our walking gear. We have found out that you don’t need to wear thermals during the day, after having to strip ours off during the walk in Lake Tekapo, so wearing regular garms we start off. The trouble with us though is that we all love taking our photos so you can imagine how far we get before stopping to take a quick snap! A 2 hour walk takes us about 4 hours in total so I was expecting to come home in darkness. The walk was actually really good fun and each 15 mins you reach a new highlight – it starts with a walk over a swing bridge with a fast flowing river underneath, then to a vista of an ice filled lake, then another swing bridge under a sheer cliff face and then a final unspoilt view of Mt.Cook! Only trouble then is that you have the whole walk to do again, this time in reverse!

When we got back we cooked ourselves some grub, parked the van back at the Hotel and through duvets onto our bed at the back, then we jumped in and put on ‘Casino Royale’. Brilliant end to a brilliant day.

The next day we were moving to Queenstown so once again everything was cleared, Lucy and Em joined me in the cab and we set off. First corner we take – BANG! The drawer of cutlery falls out, Scatt hadn’t closed it properly after grabbing the controllers for the TV, 4 broken glasses, 2 broken mugs all cleared up later and we were off… Queenstown, here we come!!!

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