We set off just after 7am and got some food for breakfast from a petrol station, we both had steak pies for some reason and mine was disgusting, I didn't eat it, it was just full of fat! We got to the ski resort about 8am and drove up the mountain to the car park, it was 12km up the mountain and I was pretty scared at times there is just huge drops and if you drive off then you're a goner! The road is unsealed too, which meant we weren't insured driving on that r...

When we got up we headed in to town to find the booking office for Cardrona Ski Resort. We wanted to book some lessons so we booked a 2 day course which would include 3 group lessons. The lessons started at 10.20 in the morning and then 2pm in the afternoon so we wouldn't get there in time for today's lessons. We headed to Queenstown as the mountain was in between Wanaka and Queenstown so we would be able to know where to go for tomorrow. The roads were really st...

After breakfast we headed back in to town to see if we could book the glacier walk, when we got in to the booking office there was loads of other people in there which we assumed were waiting to set off on their trip. When we said what we wanted to book it turned out that everyone was waiting to hear whether the helicopters would be flying today. We hung around for a short while before someone came in and said that they wouldn't be flying today as it was too wind...

We decided to check out the Glacier Hot Pools today, when we got there though they didn't open until lunch time so we headed in to town to have a look at the Glacier tours. It was really foggy and cold today and apparently now you can't get to the glacier without a helicopter. So because of the conditions they weren't running any of the tours today other than the walking one where you just walk to a viewpoint where you can see the glacier but not I on it. You can...

We got to Franz Josef Glacier in the afternoon and went to a campsite that Adam had stayed at when he came with Aaron. I had wanted to stay at a different campsite down the road which had heated bathrooms but Adam wanted to stay at the same one again. When we checked in we bought some wifi access, which after trying to log on for ages just wouldn't work, I spent about half an hour on the phone to the Internet company trying to get it to work but they couldn't fig...