I really didn't want to get out of bed this morning, it was -6 degrees outside! Chris the weirdo didn't think it was that cold and happily went to the office at 8am in his shorts and vest to see if the road had opened up, it hadn't! I was actually relieved when he came back and told me because it meant I could jump straight back into my nice warm snugly bed! A little later Chris checked for another update but it was still closed and would be all day.  We had...

It felt a bit strange getting up and making breakfast this morning, knowing people were walking by on their way to work. We had the feeling that we shouldn't have been there so we left as soon as we were ready to go at 6:30am! We skipped Invercargill and carried onto a town called Te-Anau, it started to snow heavily as we got into the mountains so Chris had to drive really slowly, the road was completely covered, it looked like a thick white carpet. Sometimes we...