Kay-Tee da Freestyler in da raptor-copter!

Well my dearest friends and relations, when I wrote last Kay-Tee and I were about to begin our journey to Te Anau and Milford Sound, and what a journey it was! We picked up our hire car friday morning, and were delighted to find a rather old red Ford Lazer with go-faster stripes and a plastic spoiler; all in all, a complete chav car that we named Vicky (Pollard). The drive to Te Anau was marvellous, but we couldn't pick up any radio reception, and thus Katie as we all know and love her metamorphosized into Kay-Tee, MC. She was happily rapping away (Example: "There is a moon, there is a river, it is wider than a kilometre!") Meanwhile I was crying, "Right, right, right!" Kay-Tee thought that as a member of her crew I was joining in with the rap, but in fact I was trying to indicate that we needed to turn right, and speedy James Bond-style driving was needed by Kay-Tee to prevent us missing the turn off. Despite these escapades and Vicky's habit of moving when she hadn't been told to, we made it to Te Anau unscathed. However, the James Bond-type experiences weren't to end there. In Milford Sound, Katie and I went on the most exciting of our adventures together: we flew on a helicopter!! It was entirely unplanned; on our day trip to Milford Sound, our guide mentioned that it was possible to do a half-hour helicopter ride. Sunday, the day of our trip, was just glorious weather. We had bright clear blue skies and the mountains were covered with fresh snowfall. It was the most perfect of days, and so we decided we had to do it. And it was absolutely awesome! We flew above the Sound, amongst the mountain tops in the most wondeful sunshine, and landed on the top of a mountain that Edmund Hilary wasn't even able to climb, with only mountains and snow and glaciers as far as you could see. Watch the opening shot of The Two Towers and you might be able to imagine how fantastic it was... I have never experienced anything like it before. And I have never seen anything like the landscape we saw on Sunday. The drive between Te Anau and Milford Sound was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. The photos below will not do it justice. In fact I will give up trying to describe it all, because sometimes words just aren't bloody good enough, and instead give you all mine and Katie's love x
(sorry that the photo's on its side, couldn't manage it any other way at the mo)