S.island 2nd part
The next day we got up and Dave and I went accross the road to a guy's Bone carving workshop. We designed what we wanted to carve, transferred it to a piece of cow bone and started carving by machine...a couple of hours and a lot of sanding later, we had a sweet bone necklace each. Mine is a kiwi bird with a koru carved out of it, its super cool! And Dave's is a hook- traditional Maori, of her own design. We ran back to the pub and jumped on the bus to leave but 2 asians decided to be an hour late- Nads almost left them but we saw them walking up from the beach and picked them up. Once we got on the road we made our way towards Franz Josef...we stopped along the way at this crazily hillarious place- Pete's possums- where possum pie was highly reccommended!! No thanks. We eventually made it to Franz Josef which is the location of a glacier...I ate dinner and Dave went to the internet...this hostel was more like a resot, it was great!! A bar, hot tub, sweet spacious rooms etc etc. I met up w/ Dirk in the kitchen- he'd spent the day on the glacier, in the rain, and was less than impressed haha then I was happy that we spent the day in Abel and not Franz...good choice on our part!! Poor Dirk. Haha. We were going to shower etc and then go our but instead we played table football- dirk and I against dave and dirk's new friend Sebastian... I think dirk and I lost, several times! But it was fun. From there we went straight to the bar and proceeded to drink...lots. We had tons of fun, Nads came out too and so did Baggins- another driver. We ended up going to the ice bar ha. It was pretty lame, and a local dressed as santa started giving me a hard time for being English...his ancestors were more than likely English but I let him ramble on. Then we left and headed home. I wanted to go in the hot tub, in fact I wanted to go in it before we went out but that didn't happen, and when we got home it was locked up....booooo.
In the morning we got on the bus with a new driver- Baggins- and headed to Makarora. On the way we saw tons of beautiful waterfalls. And we were in the dead center of the southern alps, which needless to say was stunning. We stopped at a really blue river, crossed the rope bridg- made an old lady mad b/c she thought we were rocking the bridge and she was petrified but we weren't, we were just walking accross it too!! We spent ages there skipping rocks haha- easily amused! When we arrived in Makarora we checked into our place, not really a hostel, kind of a camping ground with huts...dave and I shared w/ dirk, along with a crazy israeli girl, 4 germans who didn't talk to us the whole trip, and a Swiss dude. Not so fun but it was ok for a night. Dirk, Dave and I walked over to the river and trew rocks around again, then a crazy jet boat flew past us and its a good thing we moved otherwise we would have been soaked!! We went back and went into the cafe/pub attached to our place...I sat reading the newspaper and this old guy came over w/ 2 young guys and asked if they could join me...sure. The old guy started asking me all kinds of questions and at somepoint I said I needed a job, so he offered me a job as a shepherd. No joke. "You can come be a shepherd like these 2 young lads, oh! Do you need a husband? You could have either one of these!!" Thanks buddy, let me get back to you. We ate dinner, then the fun started...the locals were crazy!! My 2 "future husbands" got ridiculously drunk and were running and diving onto a boogie board accross the pub!! I had a couple of beers but went to bed kind of early.
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