Hello, Jane here, today I am the writer of this blog, you know to mix things up. In today's episode I shall tell the story of how Cassie and I (or shall I say Cathy ; ) ) made our journey from Franz Joseph glacier to Queenstown. First off however we spent two nights in Franz Joseph- basically just a very small town where there is not much else to do other than spend all of your money on walking towards/climbing up/flying over and falling towards the glacier, still it's pretty beautiful and who wouldn't want to spend some quality time with essentially a huge block of ice. Anyway we spent our day in Franz Joseph doing a one day hike through the glacier valley and onto the glacier itself which was pretty cool, the weather was kind of cloudy so we couldn't really see the mountains which was a shame but navigating and climbing through the ice was fun.
The next day we had decided to hitchhike to queenstown, well I had decided to hitchhike and Cassie kind of had no choice, the reason being that the stray people had decided that Cassie was no longer worthy of being on the bus that she had paid for and deleted her from the list instead. Sweet as! So being the good samaritan I am I decided to donate my own seat to another person whom had also been deleted and accompany Cassie on a hitch hiking journey. It was a much more appealing option to be honest as that meant we could sleep in and not have to stop the bus a million times over to take pictures or go to the atm or get coffee or stop for the toilet etc etc. So after a good sleep and some brekkie we set off and picked a spot just 5 minutes down the road where we would get our thumbs wiggling (like I said it was a small town). The sky was so clear and blue and the mountains looked quite amazing, these kind of days have been a rarity so far so it was certainly a mood lifter for the sun to make an appearance. After feeling a bit daft about sticking my thumb out I began to feel more comfortable and after only around 20 min we got a lift, direct to Queenstown, score! The guy was some middle aged kiwi who was heading that way to pick up a boat, there was some chat about him owning a farm and whatever but I wasn't really paying attention, the chat was a bit awkward but he was nice enough and we appreciated the ride. We also passed the stray bus a couple hours in (suckerrs) and arrived in Queenstown 2 hours before them. We also hitched another ride into town to where we were going to stay by a little old man, this time it took approximately 2 minutes... why the hell have I been paying for buses!! OK I think I may be writing too much of an essay. To conclude the drive here was really stunning and Queenstown really is as lovely as people say it is.
Tomorrow I shall be leaving Cassie to head further south so thanks pet for letting me share the food :P x
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