Hello! It has been forever! There is so much to update you on yet again. I know I can’t include it all but here’s a brief overview of everything I could remember easily. I have so many amazing pictures but they take forever to upload so hopefully more will be coming with time. It is so amazing here!!!
Since I last wrote we have been to Mt. Cook, Queenstown, the Routeburn, and now we’re in Wanaka. It has been a crazy week! In Mt. Cook we were surrounded by beautiful mountains and the weather was quite a bit cooler than we had been used to (in the lower to mid 60s). Everyone kinda split off and did their own thing here. I did a bit of hiking and catching up on homework. We also finally got to the do a really cool glacier tour. When we left Mt. Cook we headed to Queenstown. This is by far my favorite city we have been to! It is the adventure capital of New Zealand. The first night we met up with the other Pacific Challenge group, had pizza all together, and hung out for the evening. Then we spent a full day in class to make up for all the class we had missed because our professor was unable to get here until now. On Friday the 13th I got to Bungee Jump!!!! It was incredible! I’m not a very superstitious person but I was also #13 when I jumped ;) CRAZY! It turned out very well though. We got to watch people bungee at 3 different sites and then we took a gondola up a mountain and went luging at the top (comparable to extreme go-carting). It was awesome. The views were unbelievable! On Valentine’s Day we were woken up to omelets which were a great change from our usual breakfast and then we all split to do our own thing. Due to some complications and confusion bungee jumping at one of the sites the previous day, my friend Brittney and I managed to be in the right place at the right time and got to go on the Nevis Arc at a ridiculously cheap rate. The Nevis Arc is the largest swing in the world and you swing over a huge cannon right near one of the bungees. It was so awesome!!! Quite scary. The following day our group split in two and we were off to the Routeburn. The group I was on started with a nature cruise on the Milford Sound which is a beautiful area and is up for the running in being voting into the Natural Wonders of the World. It was unbelievable cold and rainy that day but it was still amazing. The next 3 days we hiked the Routeburn Track which is a 19.9 mile hike through the mountains. It was extremely difficult both physically and mentally but when we finished it was incredible. It brought the group a lot closer. We are all very sore and are now just taking time to catch up on everything in Wanaka. Yesterday we watched Lord of the Rings and got to see a ton of the places we have been, very cool. Today I jumped off of a 25 foot bridge into the river and I didn’t land quite right, I have a pretty nice bruise forming but it was great ;) We are about to have dinner now and then we are heading off to rock climb and hopefully go repelling before dark. We only have 6 days or so left in New Zealand. That makes me very sad cause I don’t want to leave but I am very excited to go to Australia. I miss you so much and I can’t wait to share all my pictures with you. Talk to you very soon.
Love you heaps, Kate
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