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Hello for the final time from New Zealand. Cant believe we've been here for a month already! We're in Christchurch now and the weather is boiling hot, its a great little city. Theres loads of fairly untalented street performers everywhere that have kept us amused. After visiting every single hair salon in Christchurch Gem finally picked one to get her hair done so thats where she is now, I had the choice between sitting in the salon reading womens magazines or coming to the Internet cafe to do this, tough choice!
Anyway, enough waffling. We went on the coach trip to Milford Sound as I mentioned in the last journal entry. It was a fantastically scenic place and there were loads of waterfalls and rocks and stuff like that. It was a bit overcast but given that its one of the top 5 wettest places in the world I dont think we can complain. It was a very long day though as it was a 5 hour each way coach trip from Queenstown, yuk! Gem was happy though as we saw a penguin!
The day after Milford Sound we made our way up towards our final destination, Christchurch. The journey was a long one and was made slower by a one hour delay while we waited for construction workers to plant dynamite and explode half of a rockface that was perilously close to the road, nice! After a night spent in a place called Geraldine that is so insignificant that Ive got nothing to say about it we finally made it to Christchuch, hurrah!
We've been here for a couple of days and not done very much, we've had to pack our backpacks again which was horrible after 2 weeks of having all our stuff spread out across the campervan. Actually I cant complain as i had nothing to do with the bag packing process, in fact I am yet to pack my own bag at any point throughout this trip (thanks Gem and Mum). We're all set for our flight tomorrow but we're really sad to be leaving New Zealand. We feel really settled here and a month has absolutely flown by. Mustn't complain, theres probably worse places to be flying to than Melbourne in the Summer time! Speak to u all soon x
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