I think I have messed up my dates in previous entries. I know today is the 12th, and I traveled yesterday so that was the 11th, but previous entries seem to be dated wrong. All in all I am keeping daily logs that are being posted.... however this entry will cover March 11 and March 12. Essentially, these two days were traveling on the bus.
On the 11th, we went form the north island to the south island, by ferry boat. It was like a giant cruise ship size ferry! The crossing took 3.5 hours, and I slept in the lounge area for 3 of those hours, it was super nice and refreshing.
We were supposed to stay in Christchurch on the 10th but with the earthquake, plans changed, and we stayed in a lovely little town with a strange name that I can not spell. Half the rooms had kitchens in them, so I made a nice little dinner for 6 of us again of stir fry and beef and heaps of veggies. It was quite a great meal.
Today (the 12) we had 8 hours of bus driving down the south island, but we made a few stops along the way. We stopped at a few scenic overlooks for great pictures, and then at the "pancake rocks" (I was disappointed they didn't really look like pancakes... but basically the rocks are layered one on top of the other...like a stack of pancakes.... lame. ;) ), we stopped at the first museum to have a street lamp, nicked name the city of lights. We also stopped at a jade factory... I may or may not have been suckered into buying something. :)
New Zealand, is beautiful. It it so green and so lush. Even the gorgeous (seriously) days in spring time that it rains in New Jersey for days, and then the sun comes out, and everything is alive, and green and budding, do not compare to even the rainy days I've seen here. The beautiful sunny times of the days, the trees and ocean and mountains are just overwhelming. I doubt there is a prettier landscape in the world. I have take a lot of photos of what we have driven by, include sheep, cows and deer, but I do not think the photos will even do justice to how amazing the vividness of the greens and blues of the trees and sky and water are.
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