Day trip to Rakaia Gorge...

At the weekend we headed towards Methven and Mount Hutt to walk up the Rakaia gorge - it was a great walk, a little introduction for Rob and I for the planned walks we have when we leave Christchurch. The scenery was really amazing, the mountain with the snow on and the blue sky and the brilliant blue of the water - a great walk.

This week is my last week in work - I finish tomorrow (Friday 13th... oooOOooo)! Very excited about that! We have a leaving BBQ on Sunday at Steve's (we've got the Pimms and gin & tonic!), and then a couple of days to get ourselves sorted before we hop on the Stray bus on Wednesday morning. We managed (3rd time lucky) to win a second bus ticket for Rob, well - we didn't actually win it - despite three weeks of practice and trying our team only made it to the quarter finals, but the girl who did win it didn't realise you couldn't sell it and therefore had to give it away and I was the first one there! A huge thank you to her (far too excited to actually remember any names!) for that. So we both got free tickets around the South Island! Great news as that's a saving of $1600!!

Wednesday we head off to Kiakora for the weekend - and then it's around to Able Tasman National Park to do some kayaking & camping. Photos of everything to come, of course.


The sun is just about to come out and Rob is just about to realise that his jumper on the fence behind him is in bird poo! :)


We stopped here for the view, an apple and a banana...


The Rakaia River...