Day 3 (Sun 27th April)

I’m getting the hang of this now and really enjoying myself. I slept right through until 9.30 and feel like I’ve sorted my body clock already, I’ve made two excellent friends already, Anita, a fellow Scot from Glasgow and Karla from Dublin. Both were in Oz before coming here. Karla heads off tomorrow for a 5 week tour of NZ and Anita is off to Oz on Wednesday before heading home. I have booked the ‘Naked Bus’ for Wednesday to take me to Wanaka. I just hope I don’t have to get Naked!! I think it may just mean ‘no frills’!!
Yesterday (Sat 25th April) was great, Karla and I got up and spent the day hopping on and off the tram, made friends with Larry the tram driver and we also went up the Gondola and had magnificent views over Christchurch. We also went on a punt along the river Avon, which was great, relaxing and chilled out. We were there early so hung out with the hunky punters before heading off and got them to make us a cup of coffee!! We hooked up with Anita in the evening after she had her new Tat inked on. The three of us went for a Chinese, hmm after spending half an hour trying to place an order and get the right wine our dish came. Erm, not what we were expecting. It was a chopped up chicken complete with bones, feet and beaks and kinda put us off!! We picked through it and made the most of it!!
Today (Sunday) we all got up around 11 and headed out to catch a bus to the Antarctic Centre. What a good laugh we had. It was really interesting and we got to see native little blue penguins. Did you know you get penguins in NZ?!!
Headed back to Cathedral Square and went for a wander and some dinner. We can’t be bothered going out tonight and we’re not allowed alcohol in the hostel but felt like naughty school kids because we sneaked some up anyway. We have no glasses though and using a mug and a cut out plastic bottle to drink from haha. Classy birds!! You can take the girls out of Scotland but you can’t take Scotland out of the girls!!!
It’s still not really hit me that I’m here yet, I really do love the place and can’t get over how relaxed and friendly everyone is. It is like Scotland/Amsterdam and Spain rolled into one!! I was a bit worried that the chocolate wouldn’t be the same but found some Lindt phew!! I need to start eating beans on toast and stop spending money until I actually get a job!! I’m not sure what’s happening tomorrow but Karla leaves so we’re one down!! I will be hooking up with her next week when she passes through Wanaka to do a Canyon Swing and a Sky Dive!! I can’t wait.