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Thursday, December 25, 2008

Glorious Maori-land

Guess I've been procrastinating this post for ages! Only because we have so many pictures and so many stories to tell that its gonna be a long story indeed. Then I thought, heck it's Xmas...I'm home alone..what else is there to do lah?? I'm sure Mom & Dad have been waiting to hear about our trip. So here is a synopsis of the 2600km we drove in 6 days 8)
Punting (we didn;t go) on the Avon river which snakes through Christchurch

Lamby lamby everywhere! 450km / day was made easy by the fantastic view along the way...okay okay...also the good company..8P

Lake Pukaki , among other glacier-made lakes . Famous for their translucent sparkly waters with an out-of-this-world turquoise blue! No camera tricks!

Lake Tekapo, my favourite lake where we also stayed at. This is what we woke up to.
Hey look! It's my precioussss (in a Smigol voice)...just happy to be there

The Blue Pools...no diving pls!

The crazy kids hiked to Fox Glacier...whooo..worth every muscle cramp later!

Mirror Lakes, where the water is still enough to reflect the mountainous landscape..therefore...pantulan effect!!

Falls at Milford Sound. Now if only there were less rain..

Queenstown Gondola ride. Don't look down!!
We're on the..top of the world..lookin' ,..down on creation , and the only explanation I can findddd...It's the love that I've found , ever since you;ve been around...you just put me at the top of the world...

Black sheep! Just as i guessed, its a recessive trait found 1 in 1000 sheep. we only saw a total of 6 in all of our 6 days and millions of sheep on the way. Pretty darn cool to see one up close at Waiau down farms.

Farmer Laine truckin' a truck!

Shearing is a tough job only a farmer can do. Average speed to shear a whole adult sheep is 45 seconds!! beat that!

South Island New Zealand is by far the best vacation we've had. 5 stars and 4 thumbs up from us!