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Yet another trip on the kiwi bus with an horrendous hangover!!! We know, we know.. self inflicted but still.. it was awful.. well..worse for Jayne. Just our luck that this was actually the longest journey on the kiwi circuit...7 hrs.. Our driver Toddy was fantastic.. we loved him. During this journey we only stopped to see a church and mount cook.. oh and a breakfast stop in the morning..
Finally arrived in Christchurch that afternoon staying at Base again.. we decided better the devil you know..checked in to a 10 bed dorm..yes 10 people in a room where not many cats could be swung trust us!!!
Found Ant and Dan who left us at Bumbles in Queentsown! great familiar faces..! they were in the room next dr.. Rm 107 with a large en suite bathroom and much bigger than our dorm.. there were only 8 beds in theirs!! what!! how jealous were we?..
Nevermind, we are leaving the next day to go to Kaikoura.. had a couple of catch up drinks with the lads and had an early night as the bus leaves at 7.20am !!! Next thing we know...BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!!!! we just looked at eachother.. surely its not morning yet!!!
We waited for the bus.. Dillon arrived! our first ever kiwi driver.. ! as we walked on the bus he said hello and told us that we weren't booked on.. WHAT! how come?.. well, long story short.. we had got up and packed at 6.30am to get on the bus to be told it was full.. great! plus we had left our room so had nowhere to check into until 2pm!
To be honest we were so tired we just kind of went along with it.. not very Lisa and Jayne! but these things happen...so we had breakfast and managed to find Ant and Dan..
Managed to check into a new room after emailing the kiwi office to book on yet again for the next day. New room..this time we were up on the 'Base Christchurch' way of things and got the en suite. for just $1 extra.. its definately what you know and how you flutter your eyelashes obviously...hahaha
Grabbed a pizza deal with Ant and Dan that evening.. $25 for any pizza and 2 beers.. thats only £12.50! Nice evening and off yet again for another early night.. woke up and thankfully were booked on this bus.. yeah!!! We had Toddy again.. Toddy has been driving the kiwi buses for 8 yrs so is a pro.. !
Off we went to Kaikoura.. hoping to whale watch!!
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