When the van's a rocking ... it's probably because it can't make it up the hill ;)

As you can tell, I'm a little behind on my blog. To summarize last week, it was busy. I completed an essay, a final, and lots more! As well as getting ready to leave for Aussie, and trying to finish everything I wanted to do in NZ! Wheww! But the weekend before last week, cannot be summarized so quickly - which is why I've taken so long to post it!

I'm going to post last weekend (not the one that just ended but the one before that) a day at a time. Maybe that way, I'll be able to get it done! So keep checking on this post, because I'll keep adding to it. where to begin?...

Thursday, Feb. 11:
Classes ended Thursday at 11:30 - which was awesome! My biology class met in the afternoon, but we are allowed one absence from each class, so I took my skip day for that class that afternoon. As such, I had time to finish packing and preparing for the weekend trip, which began at 2:30pm. There were a lot of us going on the trip together, and Tomas did an excellent job planning it all! (Thanks Tomas, because I did not have time to plan it!) We left for the airport - yes, this weekend trip involved actually flying somewhere - and arrived a little early. I was pretty tired from a full week, so I slept in a comfy chair while we waited for our plane to arrive. It is amazing how easy security is at NZ airports! We literally waited until 10 minutes before boarding to go through security! oh yeah!

The plane ride was quick and within the hour we had arrived in Christchurch. Christchurch is a pretty cool place! It's not small like the towns we traveled to on the other weekends. Jay took a bus to the car rental place and picked up our van. Yes, it was a van - we were stylin! The van was probably the most interesting thing that day. We spent the first ten minutes betting whether or not it would make it through the weekend (it did). There was moss on the windows, and nothing but seats in the back. But it worked GREAT for us! We just piled in and piled our stuff in, and had a blast! We drove to the hostel and unloaded our stuff and then went out for a late dinner. Dinner was amazing! We decided to splurge a little - pb+h only satisfy a little. We got steak! and burgers! Both were equally amazing! Katherine and I couldn't decide which one we wanted more - the sirloin steak grilled to a slightly smokey perfection with mixed vegetables, slowly cooked to a sweet tenderness ... or ... a luscious burger with two tender beef patties, bacon, cheese, and two over-medium eggs. My mouth waters reminiscing about it! So, anyway, we couldn't decide, so we decided to by both and then split them between the two of us. (Sometimes it helps to be indecisive!) After dinner, we went back to the hostel, watched some Lord of the Rings, and crashed.



to be coninued...