Lesson Two

This lesson has been a hard and annoying lesson to learn, and the lesson is - when travelling through Queenstown make sure you book everything well in advance, and have lots of extra money in case you forget to book something and have to pay extra just to be able to get somewhere (like out of this place). We learned this first with accommodation, and now with buses. In all other places we have had no problem booking our bus the day before we wished to travel, but today we tried this, only to find the bus for tomorrow (and there is but one bus a day) was fully booked. We have therefore had to pay to go with another bus company, otherwise we would have lost money elsewhere. We are not happy. We have learned the lesson.
Anyhoo, I will now fill you in on our plans for the next five days. We leave Queenstown tomorrow morning at 7.30 am (can't wait!) and travel to Fox Glacier on the west coast where we arrive about 3 pm. We are spending two nights there, for on Friday Sally is doing the glacier walk. On Saturday we have an 11 hour journey to Nelson, where we shall spend the night, before a further 2 hour journey to Picton on Sunday morning. We take the 12.45 ferry to Wellington and there we are to stay for the next few months. Thus our travelling will come to an end, and i'm afraid the blog will become rather mundane from then on. We will try to have adventures of some sort so as not to leave you all with no excitement, but it could never last forever could it?!! And that's all there is to say for now. Oh except that we get really sad when we come on and see no comments from anyone. Please just say hello so we know you're there. We miss you all.xx

P. S. some other blogs have sprouted from our blogging, so if we're not enough blog for you please try www.newstosallyandkt.blogspot.com, and www.harthside.blogspot.com. These will perhaps only be of interest to a select few, but we find them very entertaining and comforting. Thanks go out to our parents.xx