Splashing In Puddles of Sand

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I'm a long way from Picton where I last blogged from...Since then a LOT has happened...let me recap

I went sailing in Abel Tasman National Park, absolutely fantastic, the scenery was incredible! 'The scenery' includes Steve, the skipper of the boat...by the end of the day we had fallen in love but I had to go so life must go on right? Seriously though I spent the day helping him sail and talking to him while everyone else lay around on the catamaran, when we picked up passengers they thought I worked on the boat with him because we got on so well :)

Then I spent the night on a different boat and walked 3 hours on the abel tasman track, it was incredible, beach, rain forest, memories of steve hahaha.

Next from there was Barrytown--aka the middle of nowhere(population--50 at a stretch)! LITERALLY a one-bar town..and that was all there was--the bar doubled as the hostel/restaurant/non-broadband internet (didnt know ANYONE still used dial up! haha) But it was a good night, I played a few games of pool, watched the Crusaders (led by Dan Carter!) win a rugby match, had an amazing dinner, a lot of drinks, a lot of flirting with the latest guy, a south african who is amazingly hot and arrogant (the perfect recipe for a man I would love), and also met 2 english guys I had met in Taupo so we had a good ol laugh about what we've been up to. Since then I have also met them at Franz Josef, and today in Wanaka in Puzzling world...we were in this huge maze and ran in to eachother! Will probably see them here in Queenstown but i'm skipping ahead..

After Barrytown (affectionatly now known as barrycorner cuz it was so small it didnt deserve the name town) we went to Franz Josef and did a glacier hike...it was cool, but I'm maybe not so much of an ice person. I enjoyed it but I'd rather have been out sailing or something...oh well, it was a cool experience, and we slid through ice caves and saw lots of blue ice and stuff....pics will follow (I've been saying that a lot lately...). Last night there was an earthquake on the glacier...haha good thing i got out of there yesterday :) So all the hikes were cancelled for today...oh nature...

From there we had to stay in Haast. Literally did nothing..unpacked and re-packed my backpack to sort it out a bit...watched tv and talked to the gilrs in my room all night because it was PISSING down rain non stop from the afternoon on. we would have had a bonfire on the beach but it was too wet...

So then today we stopped in Wanaka, went to puzzle world which was so fun! just a place with a maze and lots of weird stuff (like a vertigo room, etc...) so that was fun and took tons of pics. Probably the best $10 i spent in nz! haha.

So now its Queenstown...it's raining a lot but hey that doesnt really matter...we've got a big piss-up planned tonight so who cares if its raining, we'll be drinking :) Still unsure about this lawrence guy, I cant decide if I love him or hate him...argh he gets on my nerves :) Tonight I will decide haha.

So thats it for now I am having a GREAT time, dont want to leave but sadly only a week left...just enough time to party here for a few days, head to milford, and see from there....On to Australia next...I dont want to leave New Zealand :( It could be worse though...I could be headed home hahaha. NO WAY!

This was a pretty decent post :) I pat myself on the back! haha, it's raining...I have nothing else to do :) My pics are being uploaded on to a cd now, so I promise...a few days and there'll be hundreds of pics up here :)

posted by Oreo @ 4:06 AM