Wanaka!!

I have arrived in Wanaka and I'm completely blown away by how beautiful it is. It was just breathtaking arriving here and it's all on my doorstep. Take the west coast of Scotland, which is beautiful and stunning and times the intensity by 10!!

Well what another great couple of days, I've had no regrets since I landed here. Not one moment have I sat unhappy and that's great as I think I was unhappy lots before I got here!

I'm just trying to remember where I got to on my blog so I can let you know what I've been up to.

Tuesday 28th

Sarah, Anita and I got up early as we planned on a full on day since it was our last in Chch. We found a free bus so hopped on just for the sake of it, we decided to hop on a bus and head to a suburb called Littleton, it was another toasting hot day so we bought some stuff for a picnic and headed off. We asked the driver where was best to get off to eat our food and have a nice view, everyone on the bus got involed, I'm still not believing just how friendly everyone is!! We had a coffee after lunch and sat in the sun, I had to cover myself in tanning stuff. Think I'll stick to fake tan though rather than sunbathing!! The girls headed off up the Gondola on the way back, since I had already done it I stayed on the bus and headed back. Chilled out reading then they came back so we got ourselves packed up and showered and changed for another night out!!

The three of us went for an Indian first to the Raj Mahal, it was the finest Indian I have ever tasted and it came to $30 each, around 12 quid. This was a main course with a side and the wine!! My old best mate from school has a cousin from Chch so I contacted her and arranged to meet up, I also called Jodie, the lassie from Melbourne that we met the other night. We all met up in Dux de Lux, a fantastic beer garden then headed off to a pool hall. Kelly (my friends cous) had a friend join us too, it was a great laugh and I also met another lassie from Hamilton. She's invited me up and offered me a bed in her house. Kelly's friend runs a bar in Chch and said no probs to a job if I go back there...SWEET!!! We ended up in the internet cafe after that then fell into the hostel at 1am.

Sarah left to catch her bus on her NZ tour at 7.30am, we just gave her a wave, that was just toooo early!!

This morning I got a bit of a shock at reading the newspaper, everyone from last weekends NZ1 flight is being tested for this flu thing, I don't know if you've heard about it back home. I've not heard from anyone but the NZ1 is the flight I took. I've not started coughing or sweating yet though!!

I jumped on the naked bus at 10am to go to Wanaka, Anita bless her helped me to the bus stop and we said cheerio. I'll really miss her, she's also a biker so we got on like a house on fire. Both as mad as a box of frogs!!

The bus journey here was just amazing, The views were stunning!!! Lake Tekapo is just a stunning colour, it's something to do with the glacier dust and the light refracting? The driver was great and gave us some running commentry.

Arrived here in Wanaka at around 5pm, the hostel was just a 2 minute walk, backpack, frontpack and a huuuuge board bag to lug up! As I was getting closer this old guy, David Hamil offered to help me, He asked where I was from and turns out he has family in Aberdeen, he was sweet and even introduced himself and told me where he lived and told me to come up for a sup of tea and tell him about Aberdeen!! He made a joke that his wife would be wondering why he was away helping this young lassie, they were just in doing their food shop. Nice old couple. It's the way of the Kiwi's, not there two minutes and they're willing to help!!

I'm staying at Base Wanaka, a brand spanking new hostel which really is brilliant. Makes the Chch one look like a right dump, it's so clean and I'm really happy to be staying here for 15 nights. If I work for 3 hours a day I can have my accommodation free so I might just do that.

I can't wait to go check the place out tomorrow, it's stunning. Go look up lake Wanaka on google. WOWOWOWOW. I'll get some photos up soon. There's a cinema room here free so I'm off to see what's on and get an early night.

Once again, I'm over the moon, very happy. I've really landed on my feet.

Catch you's soon x