tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33314449684459855152024-03-05T05:00:19.793-08:00339 // Young and IdealisticAnna Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08150655963639275221noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3331444968445985515.post-36148955352712215832013-05-15T09:32:00.002-07:002013-05-15T09:34:03.354-07:00Whats been going on lately<div style="text-align: center;">
I apologize for my tardiness in posting as always... School is finally finished with taking over my life... which I suppose means time for a new blog title. Anyways! Here is what has been going on the last month or so</div>
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Capstone modeling building & group sanding parties</div>
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Learning how to small-scale fiberglass</div>
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Pre-assembly and fitting</div>
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Final crit - that happened</div>
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Then Daapworks happened</div>
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Destroying my old favorite middle school bracelets for my project</div>
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Mom and Dad came to the big fancy opening reception</div>
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The rest of Daapworks was just amazing as always</div>
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Ross bought a puppy - Oakley</div>
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We all graduated</div>
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And our speaker was terrible</div>
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Even Raph dog was dressed for the day</div>
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Lots of photos were taken</div>
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I rocked a pretty sweet cap</div>
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Gabriella got MARRIED! </div>
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And stayed up wayyy to late waiting for the Megabus with my bestest Chicago buddy abetti</div>
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And raced at Michigan International Speedway</div>
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Now, I'm frantically working on packing up all of my life once again and applying for big kid jobs as the Cincinnati summer sets in. So much going on but so much more in the weeks to come. Traveling will include Ontario, Virginia, NYC, Nebraska, Colorado, and Georgia and I just cannot wait for all the new adventures :) </div>
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My first venturing into shoes for a Reebok job application, felt like posting it here</div>
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Model is coming along! but its still going to be a race to the finish, 4 weeks until crit. </div>
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Unlike studying abroad at a university, an internship abroad
may jolt you out of your comfort zone a lot quicker than you will expect. For
most people, it is being taken out of two major environments at the same time, the
home country environment and the university environment. Being one of only two
interns at the time in New Zealand, I felt simultaneously grown up and very
much alone when I first arrived, not having that instant friend network built
into my life that comes from the university. This doesn’t mean those friend
networks aren’t there, it just means you have to search a little harder to find
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be to just sit in your room as you wait for things to get better, don’t do it.
It is critical to get out and interact. Meet new people. The bridging cultures
program is great for this, because you will at least have someone else who is
going through the same emotional rollercoaster that you are right there next to
you, but even after it ends it is important to be out in the community. I went
to the public library the couple days before starting my job, there was free
internet and an excellent view of the Wellington Harbor, but most importantly
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ended I went into survival mode. But by locating the grocery store, post
office, phone store, and a couple coffee shops I was able to map out my new
home and feel more comfortable going out from one place to another, not feeling
like a tourist but more like I belonged. Comfort food is a big one for me, so a
coffee and kebab (almost like Chipotle… almost) really calmed me down. </div>
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to focus all that negative energy into positive by getting out and exploring.
Finding all the little nooks and cranies of Wellington city was such an
adventure and so easy on foot. It even got me excited about exploring more
places further away from my housing complex and I felt more and more confident
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unpacked when I got to my room was a surge protector to charge my electronics.
Upon plugging it in, I immediately shorted out the circuit in my room and fried
my cord. The difference is voltage was something I completely forgot to look
at, and I just had to laugh and think about what a great story this would be to
tell when I get home. Don’t let the little stuff get you down, remember : This
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will go perfectly as you plan, but you will certainly have some great stories
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Anna Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08150655963639275221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3331444968445985515.post-52940280058606574192013-03-07T17:35:00.000-08:002013-03-11T08:45:20.838-07:00Yes, I'm still alive<div style="text-align: center;">
School is just massively kicking my butt, as expected. But here is our senior class website for your enjoyment.</div>
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Nearly the home stretch! </div>
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A bit of a holiday from blogging.... but I am now back in school so project updates are to come. Here's another New Zealand photo though, my dad and I both toured the South Island and Franz Joseph Glacier valley and took a picture with this same sign. Same place different times via photoshop</div>
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<br />Anna Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08150655963639275221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3331444968445985515.post-41636681159173625792012-11-30T20:08:00.001-08:002012-11-30T20:09:04.883-08:00Dockside days and Goodbyes<div style="text-align: center;">
Well its been long enough of me being back here that I should update about the goodbyes and my last days in the beautiful NZ. Its been difficult to readjust to the time here and I have found myself getting to bed around 3:30 am and up around noon each day. It doesn't help that the days are much shorter here, the sun setting around 5 pm compared to almost 9 in Wellington. As per usual, temporary life change depression is occupying the majority of my days. Being sad from leaving such a wonderful place and a schedule I'd grown to love and being thrown back into a different life at a different time where nothing is clean and organized and I have to stress about it. At least everything is unpacked and sorted now *deep breathes* But mostly I just want to be left alone to think and reflect, or sleep. <br />
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Its been so great to catch up with everyone stateside, being able to text again on a touchscreen and not having to scramble for internet at work or the library. Here are some highlights from my last days in Wellington.<br />
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UPDATE: I have fixed the google doc link if it was not working before. Also, I got my luggage ^_^<br />
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Last week of work, I got a pinwheel.<br />
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I had a good list of things I wanted to do before I left and one of those was going up to Mt Vic again for the sunset. Kelly was nice enough to drive me up there so I would not have to walk, She was amazing that we'd picked one of the only non gale wind nights to come up and watch it. It got chilly pretty fast, and even though Wellington sunsets usually aren't the best, it was nice to look out all over the town that I'd spent my last 3 months of life in. Beautiful clouds, but it started to get too dark to see anything or photo pretty quickly.<br />
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Friday afternoon Pania and I decided to do that thing that everyone talks about doing but usually doesn't do, jumping into Wellington Harbor. It was a back and fourth joke that turned into a "you're going to do it? alright. I'm going to do it too!" It was pretty breezy out and we actually had a considerable crowd of tourists interested in what we were doing. I'm sure we'll end up on a whole slew of Chinese vacation albums...<br />
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A glimpse at the Hobbit plane at Auckland Airport, on its way to London to load up with fans for the premiere.<br />
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Annnnnd back at LAX. That big thing in the middle. Uhg, I hate that airport so much. </div>
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But my luggage did not.... last seen in LAX :/ </div>
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Starting to get very sad about leaving, temporary life-change depression I call it. I also despise moving all my stuff from place to place, so packing this week, even though its very little things, has made me quite angry. But I am sad to be leaving all my new found friends here, the routine my life has become, and of course the beautiful surroundings. I'd like to hope i'll be able to come back someday if I can ever save up enough money for another flight over.. There is still so much I would like to see and experience here. Leaving friends is always hard too. </div>
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In other news, Mount Tongariro erupted yesterday, I think it was one of the sites used in the LOTR movies or something, but everyone is all in a frenzy here about it. I don't think many were injured though it is a popular tourist destination this time of the year. Here is a photo from the interwebs</div>
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Today is my last day at Weltech working here, we went out for a nice lunch yesterday at a BBQ place in town (it was super messy and American, which is why I wanted to go there :D ), a good time, food was alright. </div>
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This will be my last post from NZ, I go offline after work today then fly out Saturday afternoon (Friday night for you all) and get back into the states Saturday night and start the get readjusted to the time difference process again :/ </div>
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Thank you, as always, for reading and keeping up with my adventure here :) Its been great and I look forward to where life takes me next.. </div>
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With this being a very sad last week in beautiful Aotearoa, I have decided to post my final paper for my academic program with my reflections about being an international intern, stereotypes of Americans abroad, and the cultural obsession of chasing the American dream. Its not the most brilliantly written piece of literature, but a lot of thought and observation went into it. A bit of a read, but here for your enjoyment should you chose to indulge. </div>
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Exploring Lake Okareka on Saturday afternoon, it got quite warm and I was wearing long sleeves and wool! </div>
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Looking out at the Tarawera valley, those mountains in the background erupted just over 100 years ago and destroyed all the towns in the area as well as covered the Pink and White terraces, one of New Zealand's wonders of the world. </div>
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We went to this pretty funky cafe for lunch on sunday</div>
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Hello! I feel like i'm getting behind in updating this, partially because I have to re-size all my photos now because blogger is being silly, but mostly because we have actually been significantly busy at work the past 2 weeks and I've had a lot to do.</div>
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As my time her in New Zealand quickly winds down, I have to say that I am excited to get back to America, there are a lot of things and people that I miss. Also, all the Kiwi's and Europeans that I work with won't make fun of "my accent" anymore! Joy. And Mexican food. Anyways... </div>
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This past weekend I flew up to Rotorua, the volcanic, Maori center of good ol NZ to meet up with one of Kelly's friends, Cassandra. </div>
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Wellington is being transformed into Middle Earth right now for the Hobbit premiere in two weeks, right after I leave. This is a huge installation sculpture in the airport's main terminal. It was on the news here, done by the Weta Cave people and probably to welcome all the international guests flying in to see the movie here. </div>
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Its my city! From the airplane ride, another prop plane but a steady flight. We flew right over the harbor and where I work in Petone. </div>
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Sommes Island in the Bay</div>
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This is Porirua, where I was last weekend. </div>
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Volcanoes from the plane, its so lovely to fly on a clear day. </div>
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Lake Rotorua! </div>
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After arriving and meeting Cass, we met up with her sister and went to the gondola up the mountain to do some street luge!</div>
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I felt cool like my Dad, he had done the luge when he went through Rotorua too. </div>
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Dinosaurs along the track</div>
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Cass on the Chairlift back up</div>
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Lake Rotorua</div>
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After that Cass took me out to a little known place, Hangarua Springs, beautiful clear lakes and tropical surrounding next to a redwood forest! </div>
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Babies! </div>
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Can you tell I'm really tired? haha, the advantages of having your body trained to a 10 week schedule for the past 4 years, really really tired at the end but prepared for a big push of final work before a deadline. Hopefully I can get some rest this.... Sunday and have a great final week in this beautiful country. </div>
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Last night was the Mumford and Sons concert here in Wellington! I was so excited to go, some of my friends had tickets to the Black Keys also in Wellington, so I headed off to the Town Hall after work by myself to get there early and stand in line ^_^ Upon getting in and purchasing my concert t shirt (eeeee!!!!!!) I immediately headed in to claim my sport up front by stage. One good thing college has taught me is how to stand up in the same place for a very long time, so the 2 hours until Mumford and Sons took stage went by quickly and painlessly. </div>
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The stage looked really cool, and I was excited to be in the Town Hall! Lots of historic events have taken place here, cool to be in the same presence. </div>
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The first band, The three B's, this quirky little kiwi band, were pretty good. They had nice harmonies and the girl played the trumpet! very cool. </div>
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Two super drunk chicks pushed their way into the front at this point, and me along with the mom and her two sons, and the nice couple to my left, got them ejected. Worth it! </div>
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The second band, Sarah Blasco, was very strange. Aussie, she had a very dark bluesy sound, kinda reminded me of the new lead singer in the group Nightwish, but also of that kind of seemly happy but oddly dark music in the sims when you were in the building stage and decorating the house. Anyone remember the sims? Some of that music was underlyingly creepy. Anyways, after all of that, Marcus Mumford, Finally! </div>
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Had a great weekend getting to see my Dad! He's in New Zealand for a couple weeks touring around and stopped over in Wellington for the weekend. It was great to receive a generous care package of American food and Oral B flossers!!! They don't have these in New Zealand and I've been missing them. Also good to swap out some clothes and get a head start on taking things back home because I fear for the impending doom of the luggage weight limit...</div>
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We wandered around Wellington Friday night and went to The Flying Buritto Brothers for dinner, the last Mexican place in town that I wanted to try. It was less bad than the others, we were both pleasantly surprised. The feijoa margaritas were delicious too. </div>
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Saturday afternoon we went to the Te Papa museum, a completely history of New Zealand, and walked around for several hours. The wind was pretty gale outside so it was nice to be inside and still doing something fun. We headed out to the botanical gardens and took a trolley ride, but it was still a bit too windy for us so we ended up heading back to Dad's hotel for a bit then got pizza dinner at a wood fire restaurant called Heaven pizzeria. (Just down the street is Hell pizzeria, not kidding) </div>
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Anna Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08150655963639275221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3331444968445985515.post-23836041932659306582012-10-31T15:34:00.002-07:002012-10-31T18:08:34.524-07:00Week 8 Updates!Week 8, I cannot believe the time has gone this fast already, I have only a few weeks left in this beautiful country before returning to my now-chilly Ohio home and starting hardcore work on my senior capstone project. Trying to soak up every last bit of the country while i'm still here.. I'm up in Porirua this weekend for the assembly, next weekend up to Rotorua to visit some new friends up there and to visit Auckland, and I'm trying to squeeze in another drive up to Lake Taupo with an extra day off I recently learned I had...<br />
Mumford and sons concert next week too!<br />
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So here are some updates from work recently,<br />
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The communication barrier between all the interns is getting better, We went over English phonics for the "th" sound, I taught them "headed out", which I didn't realize was slang, but i suppose it is. I talk with a lot more slang than I realize. Headed to lunch, Headed to the lab... They got the meaning now.<br />
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I'm on to my third assignment with work now, [mostly] finished up a truck interior / exterior proposal with the other interns for a New Zealand roadworks project. We had a test day out. Again, not particularly cold, but hiding from the sun. It was worth looking ridiculous, everyone else got sunburnt. Ha.<br />
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Now i'm working with a company called LEAP, they do indoor plumbing / heating / design systems. Its very... different. I'm leaning that "industrial design" doesn't mean the same thing to people in different countries, but I'm working on more of a marketing / branding / theory side of this project while the other interns are doing more of the technical research side.<br />
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Here is the new office:<br />
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We took an [unnecessary] 9 hour car trip yesterday for a site visit, which made a twelve hour work day, but free lunch and dinner along the way. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Droid Sans', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">My boss was driving like a crazy person most of he way up. Passing people left and right, well just right actually, I was surprised to not hear the inevitable "buggers" or "bloody this" or that, its not really road rage here in New Zealand, more just he way you drive. Everyone else, clearly the tourists, were the ones who did not know he rules of the backroads. Reminded me of the unspoken walking system on New York.</span></span><br />
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Not too many notable highlights from the 4 hour car ride up. The conversation in the car tanked quite quickly and soon became,<br />
"Ah it looks like that lawn there is well kept. With he sheep and the cows...and stuff."<br />
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Four hours is a very long time in the car.<br />
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The countryside was quite peaceful, lots of sheep and cows and he sun bringing out he true beauty of the native plants. We did pass several playgrounds that looked very much fun but for some odd reason didn't stop...<br />
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I woke up on day 6 to cloudy skies and and windy morning, but was still excited to go rafting in the morning. I checked out of the hostel early and tramped through town with my pack to the rafting place. I walked in to the place, but the guy told me that all the rafting trips had been cancelled for the day. I asked him why I was not called and notified, he told me that I should have called them to check. Okay.. so why did I provide you my phone number then? He could see that I was frustrated and I could see he was a bit embarrassed, so he ended up loaning me a bike to explore free of charge (finally got my bike!) The skies were threatening, but it was supposed to clear for the day and get sunny, so I left my pack at the place and took to exploring on bike. Much faster than walking, I went across the river and up to the north to the national park, went around the shoreline a bit then headed back into town with the rain starting again. Since it was Labour day, nothing was open. I found the only cafe in town operating and went in for breakfast. This was actually my first real NZ coffee drink, not counting McDonalds, a mochachino, sooo yummy and so sweet it hurt my teeth. I also got this omelette roll-up thing stuffed with peppers and cream cheese and served warm with jelly, pretty yummy. </div>
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I sat next to a very old woman returning from her 65 high school jubilee (reunion I think) She liked to tell me lots of things, how she has ridden this train every year and knows all the stops and scenery. She told me about her family and kids and how she was born in Christchurch then moved to Australia. After a while I moved back to an empty table and dozed off for a while, still trying to stay alert to snap photos. This is why the following are all reflecty. </div>
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Some of the most beautiful landscape in the country, If I had a month to just wander somewhere, sleeping in a tent, it would be right here. IF YOU COME TO NZ GO HERE!!! </div>
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As you can see, the weather started to turn and I headed back in to avoid the rain once again. The lady I was sitting next two had had a Popsicle and was all hyped up on the sugar, telling me about every bridge and tree and plant and bird we didn't see. The two Aussi ladies on the other side of us had had a couple drinks at this point and were very giggly and loud taking lots of photos and videos of themselves. + all the Asian kids yelling at each other. Ah, nature. </div>
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We got into Christchurch around dinner time and I took an airport shuttle into two to the backpacker place I'd be staying at. I was a bit nervous, the YHA had been destroyed in the earthquake so I was at some other place through BBH. Going through the city was really sad, it didn't feel right to take photos of all the destruction, like kicking the city when it was down. The town felt cold and empty, like and air of sorrow hung over all the buildings and all the people. So many restaurants, stores, places of business, homes, all of them destroyed. Streets were closed or fenced off, there was re barb everywhere as well as construction equipment. Everything was graffiti, it was like total anarchy had happened overnight. The people even felt down. The few locals out and about looked forlorn, hurt. Restaurants that were open were empty. It was an eerie ghost town feeling, I didn't like it. </div>
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The only place I actually wanted to see was the shipping container shopping center. I had heard about it nearly a year ago and wanted to see how it compared to Dekalb in New York. With directions from a friendly taxi driver, I found the right area. The shipping containers weren't affected by the quake because, well, they're shipping containers, a very simple structure and just stacked on top of each other. Even if one fell over, it would be easy to repair. But the area surrounding was quite broken. </div>
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This church had all its windows blown out and its foundation was barely standing on bricks, but they had a sign saying that services were still being held Sunday. Even so being a church, I was a bit impressed at the resilience of the kiwis. The side of it was, like every other building, covered in graffiti. </div>
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I checked into the backpacker place, didn't like the feel of it. Didn't like the guy at the front desk either who smelled of smoke. He showed me to my "girl dorm" filled with 3 boys and a couple from Germany. That, plus there was no key to the room and they front door didn't lock. Angered and feeling uncomfortable, I phoned around to a couple friends and found some girls to stay with in the area for the night, leaving the backpacker place without checking out of saying goodbye, too sketchy for me!</div>
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They made up the couch for me which I was overly grateful for after explaining I had a sleeping bag and was more than willing to sleep on the floor. I had arranged for a taxi in the morning to get to the airport early and left the next day at 6am. Made it to the airport alright, had an interesting time getting through security... I posted (mailed) my knife back to myself in Wellington, but in my haste of leaving the backpacking place the previous night, one of the beer bottles broke and spilled all over my pack, so it smelled hoppy. </div>
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(Beer updates - Spleights was delicious, Didn't try Macs, it broke)</div>
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The guy at security scan kept asking me questions to hold me up going though and I'm pretty sure he thought I was up to no good or something, the way my backpack smelled, but I ended up making it though, boarded the plane probably looking overly nervous for no reason, and made it back to Wellington about 8:30 in the morning to take the bus into work. </div>
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SO that was my crazy backpacking adventure weekend! </div>
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Now that I'm all caught up here, Friday afternoon, I'm off to enjoy the weekend. My dad is in town today and tomorrow so it will be nice to catch up. I'm just glad to be back into my routine. Holidays (kiwi for vacations) are nice, but its nice to come back and go back to a schedule of predictable and routine. Ah, weekend. </div>
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Up early once again, I headed up to Barrytown for the day to find this knife making place I had googled online. Barrytown is about 20 minutes to the north of Greymouth and very easy to overlook if you don't know what you're looking for. I had heard of this knife making place though, and was determined to track it down. It was not currently raining, but the skies were threatening so I didn't want to caught out in the wet again. I found the place about 8:30. </div>
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Misty. Barrytown is also right on the Tasman sea. At the knife making place, the owners, Robyn and Steven were very sweet. They moved out of the city to retire and started this as a tourist business. They work 6 days a week upon request and have every Monday off to go into town. Their property was large, backed right up against the mountains. They had horses, ponies, sheep, cows and a couple dogs, one named Fluff a very cute white puffy puppy. Other people began arriving about 9 and we started things shortly thereafter. </div>
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We finished all the rough assembly before lunch, adding brass and a wooden handle then breaked for salami toasties and fresh fruit & tea for lunch. It was interesting to hear about the other people there. There was a couple from Germany, a couple from the UK now living in Christchurch studying the effects of earthquakes, a lady there by herself because her husband wanted to do a day-hike instead of making a knife (psh, crazy) and several others. Everyone was very nice and eager to get back to work. After lunch we started the finishing process, sanding and shaping, polishing and sharpening the blades, then staining the wooden handled and by 4pm we were finished, throwing axes and taking pictures. Robyn also took us around the farm to feed some of the horses and swing on the giant log swing they had built. </div>
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A great day activity, lots of smiles and lot of fun. We all got special made cardboard holders to take them home in or to mail. </div>
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I headed back into Greymouth for the evening and thought I'd check out the town's Brewery for the evening. Greymouth was known as a brewing town for may years, and their brand, Monteith's, is currently NZ's #1 beer. I figured I'd take the tour and give it a try. </div>
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The place was packed when I got there. Our tour guide was an ex-parole officer. She was not the most friendly person, and was not very knowledgeable about the company. She would get upset at the tourists when they asked questions she didn't know the answers to (which was most of them) but I found the whole thing quite funny. I popped out to visit the museum attached to the brewery to get caught up on the history. </div>
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They started as the Westland Brewery when the company still worked with Hokitika. But after the great depression, things kind of crashed for a while and both towns had a hard time recovering. Monteith's eventually emerged and is now flourishing in Greymouth and supplying beer to all of NZ and Australia. </div>
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My tour came with 4 tasting beers, I tried their summer ale, but was pretty disappointed. It had no depth, tasted like cheep beer or beer-flavored water. I was sad face, but thought I'd try another brew. I really liked the design of the place (the menu had a good font!) so I decided to stay. </div>
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I tried the apricot wheat beer next, delicious apricot flavor but still terrible beer. I tried to order some chips (fries) to hang around longer, but they said they kitchen was not taking orders at that time from being too backed up. I looked around at the 50 people or so in the restaurant, then back at the bartender, then decided to leave, a bit in disbelief. </div>
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I headed back to the hostel and left my 2 free beer coupons in the community voucher box and gave my other free beer coupon (for a local restaurant) to the lady at the front desk. She was excited at least. After that, I had another pasta dinner then found my way back to the comfy couch by the fire to spend the evening reading nature and explorer magazines before headed to bed. </div>
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Ha, I thought it was nice since I had probably woken her up when I left in the morning. The most words she said to me, in a note. </div>
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I was up early again to catch the bus up to Greymouth for the next stage of my journey. The town was pretty quiet and cloudy and I was a bit forlorn for having to leave the peaceful mountain town, it had really grown on me. On the bus were a lot of familiar faces, the guy from England, the girl from Finland, the girl from Brazil, and my roommate from the past two night were all headed up North as well. Also saw one of the girls from Holland from 2 nights ago. Our driver this time was a bit... well, you could tell he as a kiwi. Most tourist guides along the west coast are actually foreigners who just love the area so much they get jobs as tour guides to stay. This guy was definitely kiwi, and he had a lot of road rage so the ride was enough to make my stomach churn.. But he stopped at some nice places for photos again. We stopped along Lake Lanthe for photos, I was just glad to hop out into the fresh air for a bit. I was glad this was my short ride, only for the morning.<br />
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We also had a morning tea stop at this place called the Bushman's center, a very colorful stop with a clearly strong personalitied owner.<br />
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It was an interesting place. Food was pretty good, but I was not adventurous enough to try the possum. Getting back on the road, we headed up to Hokitika, a very small touristy town, for a half hour stop. I wandered around all the stores in about 15 minutes, the place was not very large. The town used to be a larger brewery town before the great depression hit. After, most business moved up the road to Greymouth because of the train access. Hokitika is on the mouth of a riverbed and known for greenstone, or to American, Jade stone. There were tons of shops and carving places in town all with bargain bins of jewelry deals. I kind of regret not getting something cheap, but I so rarely wear jewelry anyways that I just couldn't justify it. There was a really great yarn shop in town so I picked up a pair of nice wool socks and some possum fur yarn for my mom. The shop owner lady was very nice, she makes socks all day and also runs a knitting museum in town. She told me she even tours the US yearly giving workshops and demos in states all over. (She actually knew where Ohio was and had even been to Cincinnati before!) I was quite impressed.<br />
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Leaving town was a short 20minute drive to to Greymouth, my final destination. It was actually sunny getting into town so the thing I wanted to do most was visit the beach before the weather inevitably turned sour for the day. We were dropped off at the train station and after asking for directions and getting a map of the town, I headed over to the hostel to drop my pack off. Another YHA, they don't disappoint. This one was an old house for priests in training. It had all original doors and windows and an old coal burning fireplaces that heated the entire building. It felt so cozy walking in! I had a chat with the girl at the desk, telling her of my plans and getting some good trail recommendations for walking around then dropped off my stuff and headed out towards the beach. This was my key, just to show you :) </div>
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When I was originally looking for things to do in Greymouth, I couldn't find much so I just assumed it was a very small town and more of a stopover for the trans alpine train. To my surprise, Greymouth is a bigger town, its just more of a normal people place, not too touristy. It took about 45mins to walk to the beach, I was walking towards the norther shore, but when I got there I was very sad because the beach was all smooth, round rocks that made a lot of noise when the waves receded off them. A bit winded ad hungry, I decided to rest on a driftwood log and eat lunch anyways. I had picked up some roasted tomato and rosemary bread in Hokitika and watched the angry Tasman on the otherwise sunny and happy day. </div>
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After eating, I checked the map again and figured out there were some beach beaches if I walked further south. I decided to set off in search of sand. After waling another half hour or so, I decided that Greymouth is an excellent place to rent a bike. Unfortunately, this conclusion came when I was no where near a bike rental place. I kept walking and finally came to sandy beaches :) </div>
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It wasn't that cold, but I had my jacket and hood up to hide from the sun. I was so relaxing to sit on the beach and just enjoy the day. I couldn't believe that yesterday I was walking on an ice glacier next to a rain forest and today I am siting on the beach. New Zealand really has a wide variety of climates. Makes it difficult to plan what you're wearing. This was also the first day (in all the time i'd been here) That I've worn just a t-shirt. Minus sweater shirt, that doesn't count. (I'm quickly thinking back through all my photos, but I'm pretty sure every other time has been a t shirt with a sweater or jacket) I'm also capri-ing it, so yayyy beach weather!</div>
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After relaxing for a while, I started walking back towards town, had to stop again and ask for directions because it turned out I had walked a lot further than I thought, made it back to the town center and briefly perused the shops still open, then walked over to the old rail station and clock tower that the town is known for. I think this old rail station was destroyed by a flood, there were several really bad ones in the last 150years. </div>
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There were a couple other travelers at the hostel, my roommate from the previous night in Franz Joseph included. We worked on a puzzle together in front of the fireplace that evening and listened to three of the other girls talking about a whole slew of things (one was American, one British, and I think the other was Australian...) There was another Asian girl who was reading in the corner (she turned out being my roommate for the night) but again, never said one word. </div>
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The hostel was selling wool hats so I asked the girl at the desk about them. She explained that one of the founders of this hostel, Claire, had gotten older and retired and was living in a nursing home but still wanted to be a part of all the experience and the hostel and all the travelers and stories, so she made these hats to sell and asked that anyone who purchased one write her a little story about themselves and their travels. Excellent opportunity for me, so I wrote her a quick note, thanked her, and purchased a very warm grey and brown hat. I had to snap a (blury) photo of how backpacker-er I had become by now, lol </div>
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wool hat, wool socks, wool jacket. But a happy, warm Anna. </div>
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Day three, my favorite day for exploring. Woke up real early because I realized that I had left my jacket on the bus the day before. I was hoping to catch the same driver on his way out of Franz Joseph and back to Queenstown at 8am. Glad I did get up, because the morning was bright, sunny, and warm. Walking through the small town I could see my breath and the frost just melting off the plants. The mountains were stunning, freshly show covered and shimmering in the morning sun. Other tourists who were up early were all in the middle of the street snapping photos, since the day before they were shrouded in clouds. Here's a photo of a bit later in the morning. </div>
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I was really excited to do the glacier hike in the morning, at the place they said this has been the first good day in two weeks, soo glad it was not raining. We suited up with our gear, heavy boots and crampons, jackets, and wool gloves and after a brief safety briefing walked to the helipad to get picked up and flown right onto the glacier. </div>
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The flight, about 7 minutes, was really cool. It was so pretty to see the glacier from up above and the valley that I had hiked through the day before. You could hear the pilots talking in the earphones too. </div>
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We landed about the middle of the glacier, it was still in the shade for about an hour. This was probably good for me, cause I got sun burnt here anyways. The guides stopped to put on more sunscreen every couple of hours, I understand now why. Everything is reflecty, the snow, the ice, its a terrible place for a fair-skinned American. </div>
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We walked for just over 3 hours, it was hard work tramping up and down the ice paths and we stopped frequently to take breaks. My group was actually made up of ten others from the "kiwi experience" tour bus. I guess they had had a bit too much fun the night before because one girl kept vomiting in the snow when we would stop to rest. It was funny to me, and to the rest of her tour group, but she did not look very pleasant. I was surprised she carried on the whole morning. </div>
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Our guide, I can't remember her name so we'll call her Megan. She looked like a Megan. Megan was a native kiwi, born and raised just outside of Wellington. She came down to Franz Joseph just after completing her courses at University because she loved the outdoors and exploring. She got this job as a tour guide just 6 months ago. You could tell she way new, cause she wasn't super over enthusiastic nor did she share much of the history of the glacier with us. I stuck to the front of the group most of the time as the rest of the Kiwi Experience were mostly goofing off or snacking the whole walk, so Megan and I got to chat a bit and she took lots of photos for me which was sweet. She had a hard morning as well, this being the first day they had lead tours on the ice for a while, they had to re carve out a lot of paths, so she was busy with the pick ax most of the time or checking paths to make sure they were safe for us to walk through.</div>
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I had stopped at the supermarket earlier and picked up a chicken and brie sandwich for lunch so I headed back to the hostel for a quick lunch and to unload some gear for my afternoon hike. I set off about 1:30 for the Alex Knob hike, and 4 hour summit, 8 hour turnaround. I was hoping the weather would hold and I could finish before dark. I had talked to Megan about it earlier in the morning and she said she climbed it with a friend in 7 hours, but with the fresh snow it may be too deep to reach the top. I was still keen to give it a go regardless. </div>
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The hardest part was since the trail was straight up the mountain, there were many points when I had to actually climb on things because I was either too short to step up on the rocks, or the path was wet and muddy and I wanted to avoid the large puddles. I managed to stay dry for a while, but eventually my feet were soaked through. I met a couple others coming down and they told me the summit was in a pretty bad condition as well. There was another girl who had started just after me and passed me, but stayed about ten minutes ahead of me. With the reports from everyone else, we decided to hike until 5pm then turn around, not wanting to get stranded in a wet and muddy trail in the dark. </div>
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First golden sunset I'd seen, normally the mountains or clouds block them out in Wellington. It was comforting to see the red skies again ^_^ </div>
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Back at the hostel I stayed by the fire for quite a while to warm up and talked to a girl from Malaysia. She was traveling around New Zealand for a couple weeks after finishing a work assignment in Auckland. She loved the country (like most backpackers) and we talked about where we had been and about visiting Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippians. This is when I decided I don't have nearly enough travel swagger to hold my own with the backpackers. Traveling around the USA doesn't really count to them, lol. The things foreigners know about the US is New York, LA, and the Grand Canyon. Nothing in between. I enjoyed more listening to her stories and travels. </div>
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I woke up early to catch the coach bus up the west coast, and since I was up got to witness a beautiful sunrise over Lake Wakatipu.</div>
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No filters here, these were the true 7am colors. I loved waking up to The Remarkables, they are stunning. (Today is the day I get a bit cheeky with photos of myself, bear with me lol) </div>
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I loaded the coach about 7:30am and we headed off up the West Coast. Route 6 took us past the fruit farming town of Cromwell, on the foot of Lake Dunstan. Fruit and wine farming are actually real big in this region despite the cold temperatures. Many farmers have large windmill fans in their fields to keep the frost off their fruit. We passed primarily cherry farms, it was raining so here is a google picture of the town center </div>
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It was a pretty small town. We continued up along the Clutha river, the longest river in New Zealand and up to the town of Wanaka, on the lake. Still rainy, but I took a couple photos here at our brief stop. </div>
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That was neat. We continued past Lake Hawea and stopped at the top of Lake Wanaka to take photos looking down the whole length. </div>
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Continuing up route 6, we passed through Mt Aspiring National park and through the Haast pass. There were some beautiful tropical falls in the park, we stopped at Thunder Creek Falls for some exploring while our drivers changed. </div>
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There were a couple other backpackers riding the bus, one guy from England, a girl from Brazil, another girl from Finland, and another girl from Australia. I had a snack with the guy from England, Ben, and the girl from Australia, Derby. Backpackers are always eager to share their stories with you and talk about their travels, so I enjoyed listening to them. </div>
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From the sea, we were headed into glacier country, first stopping at the Fox glacier where some got off the bus, then onto Franz Joseph at about 4pm. The mountain town is very small, two streets, one main restaurants and a slew of places to stay. A quick walk to the YHA and I checked in and dropped off my pack in a 4 share room. It had a very homey lodge feel, a sauna, and a fireplace going in the main living room, very nice. Since I had been sitting on the bus all day, I was anxious to get out and explore a bit before it got dark, so I headed out towards the glacier. </div>
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After the hike I headed back to the hostel for the night. It was beginning to rain on my walk back and a nice lady I had passed in the valley stopped and gave me a ride back into town, saving me about a half hour. I wont even try to spell her name because I could not pronounce it, but she was Italian and traveling to Fox glacier in the morning. I thanked her for the ride and stopped at the only restaurant in town to pick up a pizza before heading back to the YHA for the night. I ended up staying with two girl from Holland and one from Asia... she never actually said a word so I don't know where she was from. We all were pretty exhausted and asleep by 9:30. </div>
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Alright! Story time, now that I've had a day to actually go home, recover, and take a shower. I actually looked forward to sleeping in my sleeping bag in <u>my own</u> bed, or mostly in a room by myself, haha, but I had an absolutely wonderful time. </div>
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Day one started with much eager anticipation, I was excited to go to the airport, to get on the plane, to go to the south island, everything was just excitement. I had my backpack packed and my food bag ready (to save money on eating out, I brought my own breakfast, powdered milk (surprisingly yummy), muesli bars, celery, apples, mangos, peanut butter, corn and sunflower seed crisps... a good amount of snacky foods) Airplane security laws here are much different, so I had no problem bringing all of this food plus normal-sized toothpaste and a water bottle - security did not mind. </div>
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I was out at the bus stop early to catch the bus to the airport, but it must have come even earlier because the time came and went and there was no bus. I could wait for the next one, but it would be pushing it a bit close to my check in time which HAD to be a half hour before my flight left at 8:55... The second bus was supposed to show up around 8 but did not so I started to get panicked... I was worried there was an accident on the motorway holding traffic up and knew that Jetstar, my airline, would have no remorse on me if I was late. With the prospects of my entire weekend being over before it even started, I left the bus stop and jogged up to Courtenay place where I knew the taxis were. I managed to get the only taxi around, jsut as he was pulling up. He must have thought I was a crazy person literally jumping into the backseat and explaining that I had only 20 minutes to make it to the airport to check in.</div>
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He was very nice and understanding, and got me to check in with 4 minutes to spare and didn't even charge me full fare, so sweet. Happily through security, I walked to the gate as the plane was boarding and made it on, calmly, to my set and was ready to go. I hoped the whole weekend would not be this exciting so early!</div>
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They say the plane ride into Queenstown is beautiful, but I had no idea just how amazing it would be. It was a beautiful sunny flight, and all these were taken from the plane. </div>
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I was so happy to get into town. Of all the places I visited, this would be the place I would want to go back to and live if I could, it is just breathtaking. Visas are hard to get in this area though, with it being so tourist heavy. I took the bus into town and walked through the city center to the lakefront where the YHA hostel was that I'd be staying at. I was a bit nervous about staying in dorm rooms the entire trip, and this would be my largest of all, a 7 share. Since I was early, I dropped off my pack and food then headed back into town to explore the shops and find some lunch before the afternoon. Its a pretty small town center, and it only took about a half hour to get around it, so I spent a lot of time in the touristy stores stocking up on souvenirs ^_^ I found the only mexican place in town for lunch, still fiercely craving a buritto. It was... alright. Acceptable may be the word for it. </div>
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After lunch and shopping, I headed over to meet my horse riding group for the afternoon. We loaded in a van and drove out along Lake Wakatipu to get to the stables. Beautiful views as the rain was holding off, the mountains were keeping us protected at least for the moment. I took the "Ride of the Rings" tour, and the much more hardcore fans were quite upset that I had yet to see any of the movies or read the books (except the hobbit) But, they had also filmed The lovely Bones, Wolverine, and the Narnia movies here. I had at least seen the Narnia movies, ha, so that was acceptable. We drove out to this town called Paradise. It has a population of 6 and got plumbing in 1999, quite the happening place. Most of it is actually protected as a nature reserve by an old guy that had died and set up a trust to protect the land. Peter Jackson was originally not allowed to film here, so he decided to write a pretty generous check to the trust fund and get them plumbing. He was then permitted to film on the condition that he left the landscape in the exact same condition as he found it. Apparently, he had a large team of people collecting samples and cataloging every single tree in the area, then set up a green house acres long to grow native species there to replace anything that was disturbed. He held true to his promise, and after 2 years of filming when he left, tons of people flocked to the area looking for anything to sell on trademe (like ebay) but not a single prop, even arrowhead was found. This is why Peter Jackson has been allowed by the trust to continue filming here. </div>
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LOTR - something important happened between these two trees, Haley felt the need to tell us about it. </div>
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My horse, Presley, is a movie star. He was in Prince Caspian because he likes to run through the water. He is a retired race horse. A lot of the horses brought over from Australia for the movie wouldn't run through the water, so, embarrassed, the production crew had to ask a lot of local stables to borrow horses. They had to go through a pretty rigorous noise / distraction test running through a line of people, then had to come to a dead stop on command. 75% of the horses did not pass the test, and only about 250 were used for the actual filming, Presley being one of them. So, I got to ride a movie star :) </div>
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K, so, at the end of the first LOTR movie I guess someone important dies here then Sam and Frodo hop into a boat. (I think it was really important) (Sorry these descriptions are terrible, haha) </div>
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Just at the end of our ride, the rain started. Good timing, so we headed back into Queenstown just ahead of the showers. I had asked Haley our horse guide what I <b>had</b> to eat in town, and she told me a Fergburger. So, </div>
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After dinner I headed back to the hostel along the lake, briefly considered going back out for the evening but it was dark and raining and a hot shower and sitting in a beanbag chair watching Bear Grills on the tv won out. Comically, I ended up being the only one in the 7 share room for the evening. So I had a giant room, private bathroom, a heater all to myself, all for $25. Not bad at all for the first day. </div>
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Anna Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08150655963639275221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3331444968445985515.post-12105106981875370792012-10-22T14:47:00.001-07:002012-10-22T14:47:12.479-07:00I made it back! alive! So much to catch up on and I wont be able to get it all done today, I took an early flight out of Christchurch this morning and straight into work with my backpack and all. Overall, I was an absolutely incredible holiday, but I am glad to get back to a regular schedule and back to work for the week. Day updates to come soon, Thanks for keeping up with me!<br />
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:)Anna Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08150655963639275221noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3331444968445985515.post-35451317664107110632012-10-14T19:41:00.002-07:002012-10-14T19:51:57.119-07:00Nelson - Picton Adventure Day 3<div style="text-align: center;">
Sunday! Even though our journey was coming to an end, we still managed to have an exciting day. After an absolutely wonderful morning with friends, we stopped at subway for lunch and check in to the ferry for our ride through the Sounds and back home to Wellington. It was sunny and a beautiful day, though we worried about the wind + boat combo in the open water. It was a three hour ferry ride, and we spent the majority of the time outside either on the top deck or close to the middle of the boat where the rocking was not so bad. The Cook Straight is one of the most dangerous stretches of water to cross, and even on a seemingly calm day, the boat was rocking like crazy and sea water was splashing all over us once we got out in between the two islands. It was only that middle hour and a half or so of time that was bad, the rest was pretty enjoyable and we spent some time in the greenhouse-like cafe once we got closer to Wellington bay.<br />
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Kelly was doing the gangnam style dance to cheer up all the seasick people next to us. I feel a bit bad taking a photo of them all, so many kids were getting sick. That's the south end of the North Island in the background!</div>
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Good, but not as filling as I'd hoped. Sigh... There's a Chipotle at the Washington Airport... Totally stopping there when I get back into the states.. </div>
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As for this week, I have just a short two days at work then off to the South Island again for my grand adventure! Its the labor day holiday weekend here, so everyone is planning a nice vacation with the extra time off. I'm excited to visit some of the more remote areas of the country and should have plenty of stories for my next post! </div>
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Saturday Morning we got up at 6:30am to check the weather (by check, I mean pop our heads outside and look around). We were planning to go kayaking and hike part of the Queen Charlotte trek, but unfortunately that got cancelled due to heavy rain and winds. Our backup plan was a ferry ride out to a bird sanctuary island and spending the day at a resort, going to the spa and hiking to a waterfall, but at 6:30am with heavy rain and gale winds, we decided to nix that as well and go back to sleep for a couple hours. </div>
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When we woke up again, still pouring rain, we decided to head into town anyways and go through the local shops. They had surprisingly affordable souvenirs and everyone was keen to talk to us and learn about where we were from. I guess a lot of other people's activities had been cancelled too, the downtown area was busy. </div>
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This was a clothing line and made me smile since I've read To kill a mockingbird. Too expensive to buy, of course, but still cool. </div>
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After about an hour, we had thoroughly covered Picton's downtown shopping district and decided to venture down to Blenheim since it was a bigger city, in hopes of finding something else to do. We stopped by a chocolate factory and had lunch and free wine tasting at a vineyard nearby. </div>
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After lunch we ventured into Blenheim to do some more shopping. The weather cleared up nice and it got sunny and warm for a while. We spent the majority of out time in Kathmandu, the outdoor / adventure-y New Zealand brand store, they were having a good sale and we're both suckers for practical outdoorsy things. I picked up that pack away backpack on Friday, Kelly got a rain jacket in Blenheim and we were both ready to get back to Picton and tackle the outdoors. </div>
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I had really wanted to hike all day, so even though it was muddy and rainy we decided to do a short hour and a half trek just to say we did it. We were planning on heading back to the house afterwards anyways, so getting wet at this point was okay. </div>
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We passes this neat little stream / waterfall</div>
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At the top, it was quite windy and very very cold, but being excited to have reached the lookout we paused for a photo and granola bar before heading back down</div>
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We kept seeing these weka birds, they look an awful lot like kiwis. This was a mom and her baby birds, so cute and fuzzy. </div>
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After warming up back home we headed down to the marina to a local pub, Jolly Rogers, on recommendation, for dinner. Burgers and fries after a cold rainy day, there was just nothing better. The evening was pretty quiet, we decided against karaoke and headed back to the house to study and stretch since we were both sore from the climb. </div>
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What an exciting weekend we had! Kelly and I ended up with quite the adventure from just a small idea of a weekend holiday. With much eager anticipation, we flew out of Wellington Airport Friday morning to head down to the south island town of Nelson. Another adventure on a little prop plane... but much less scary than the first time. </div>
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Air New Zealand is just totally the best to fly with. We were a bit late to check-ins but they still let us on the plane. It was crazy, since it was a domestic flight, we didn't even have to go through security. I checked my big backpack because I brought a large bottle of sunscreen and didn't want to have to throw it away, but it turned out I didn't even need to worry about it. We just walked straight down the terminal and onto the plane (so strange). </div>
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Got a nice view of the Marlborough sounds out the window, it was a bit hazy in the morning but it quickly cleared up once we landed in Nelson. </div>
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After picking up our rental car, and going through quite the safety briefing since I was listed as a licensed driver (and terrified at that of driving on the opposite side of the road) we headed straight to the beach. It was still early in the morning, about 9am, so there were few people on the beach. It was absolutely stunning, white sandy beach fading into the calm ocean with mountains in the backdrop. The sun came out while we were there too so it got pretty warm. We talked about how wonderful it would be to live here and see this everyday. </div>
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We wasted no time being ridiculous, the tri-pod for my camera came in quite handy the whole weekend (thanks mom!) </div>
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This was an excellent time to test out my water shoes I picked up in New York this summer, until I realized "Wait, I'm on a beach, why am I wearing shoes at all?" Kelly had just painted her toes too so we thought it apropro to photograph. </div>
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After the beach we headed back into town to visit the World of Wearable Art museum. No photos allowed there, but here is their website if you're curious - <a href="http://www.worldofwearableart.com/">http://www.worldofwearableart.com/</a></div>
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The costumes were absolutely amazing, I cant believe the materials some people used, everything from trash cans to milk jugs, sheet metal, paints, fabric, fiberglass, old clocks, mirrors, you name it and it has probably been used in WoW. We got to sit through one of the re-runs of the shows to see the costumes performed, which was very interesting as well. It reminds me of the opening ceremony of the Olympics, or like cirque du soleil, very cool. I've decided when I have copious amounts of free time I'm totally building something and entering it. </div>
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There was also a local art gallery in the museum as well as a classic car galley. Kelly really liked the old Caddys, I liked the crazy displays they had for some of them, such as this one. </div>
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After the museum, we drove out of Nelson and through Richmond heading towards Upper Moutere and all the wineries in the area. We stopped at this logging area that overlooks Nelson to take some more photos and chase the southern alps a bit more :) </div>
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We stopped for lunch at the Moutere Inn, New Zealand's oldest pub, and they had the documentation to prove it, so that was pretty cool. Just happened to pass it on the road, sometimes the places you find like that are the best. It was so gorgeous that we ate outside and tried some of the local beer. This area is known for its hop farms, the bartender said something like that's what 70% of the farmers in the area are growing, so it makes for a lot of good beer. </div>
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I had a toastie to eat (chicken, cranberry, and brie - YUM) and Kelly ate a meat pie. And this is considered bar food? just crazy, it was delicious. </div>
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After lunch we were planning to keep driving up to Motueka, but on recommendation from several of the locals, headed to Mapua instead. We walked around the tiny town and in all the old people art shops and garden stores then headed to the shoreline and got ice cream. </div>
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By this time it was late afternoon and probably a good idea for us to get started on our drive to Picton where we'd be staying the night. Kelly also thought it would be a good idea for me to try driving (that lasted about ten minutes) A combination of her terrified of me going off the road into a ditch and me making turns into the wrong side of the lane.... We decided it was better if I just drove at night when other people we not around ;) </div>
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It was quite nerve racking because every time I wanted to use the turn signal I would flick the windshield wipers, and changing from drive to reverse with your left hand is just very very foreign. I did better on the Queen Charlotte Road after we were on it for a bit.</div>
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We watched the rain clouds come in over Nelson all day and finally started to drive through them now, but didn't hit any rain until we got to Picton. That was good, we were able to hop out a couple times to take photos just before it got too dark. (We think) I also lost my sunglasses somewhere about this time. I'll have to search for another 5-dollar pair around here... </div>
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We got into Picton just after dark and stopped at Le Cafe for dinner just before heading to the family's house we'd be staying at. By 10pm, we were both so exhausted that we just went to bed. It was an excellent first day to our adventure though. </div>
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mmmmm scallops!</div>
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