Friday, December 26, 2008

Merry Christmas

Hi everyone,

Currently still with family enjoying the christmas days. Christchurch was good fun, saw the old house and took the bus through the neighbourhood.
Also went to my old school and walked through the grounds which brought up good memories.

Currently we have a great view of the countryside and mount gray. which is nice to see in the morning, we spent a while in the sun on the roof which is great, especially when I see its cold at home

Tomorrow we’ll be taking a 5 to 8 hour drive up to Nelson to see family, there we are going to stay for two days then we’ll be heading back down the west coast.

Well take care for now and i’ll update once back here

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

New Zealand

Its strange being back, I saw Christchurch for the first time in 13 years yesterday. Everywhere I see things I remember, and other times I ask myself if I remember that from when I was 13 or was it from a photo? We walked around the Cathedral in Christchurch yesterday and did some shopping. We even stopped at Starbucks for a hot chocolate. Tomorrow we’re going to see more of christchurch hopefully the good weather will hold. We plan on going punting and taking the tram around the city center. We are currently at family enjoying the countryside and recovering from the jet lag.

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Alcatraz

Well, we’ve left San Francisco, and are now in New Zealand. San Francisco was fun and enjoyable our night out with the Hostel people was an interesting experience. I will never forget the crazy and expressive french guy we met named Dante. We stopped partying at around 1:30 in the morning when we woke up the next morning we heard they went on till around 6 in the morning, so we were glad we stopped when we did. That morning we hopped back on our hired bikes (on which we biked over the Golden Gate Bridge the previous afternoon) and took them back to Fishermans wharf.

We took the bikes back and decided to go checkout Alcatraz which was closed on the sunday, so we got tickets for Monday. After doing that we walked to Lombard Street and saw how san francisco makes a road into a tourist attraction, one with a really great view of San Francisco. The we walked back to the Hostel via Hyde and Sacremento and saw the grace cathedral which looked a bit like the Notre Dame in paris. The Next day we took the F line to Pier 33 to go to Alcatraz, hopped on the Boat and 10 minutes later we were watching a movie about the history of the Island, did you know it was used by families and that families actually lived next to the Prision? We also did the Audio tour of the Cell block which was a scary experience, made it sound pretty real… All in all it was a fun Experience and the whole time we had good weather.