The clouds had settled in overnight and we woke up not even able to see the mountains. We decided to head up to the Mt Cook visitors center and check it out. It was basically a museum about the area and mountain climbing. Pretty cool. It began pouring rain and we were thankful that our timing had worked out with our hike the day before. After a couple of hours of checking out the visitors center, headed to Christchurch where we would fly out the following day.
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| This was the only picture we took on this day. I wore 0 make-up our entire trip. Loved it! |
We stopped at Hagley Park and Botanic Gardens in Christchurch. It was beautiful but several of the buildings were closed due to the earthquake that happened in February of 2011. When we tried to go to dinner that evening most of the central downtown was still closed and just fenced off so we kept running into dead ends. That struck me as very different from the US. Here, we would likely be working on getting things back to normal as quickly as possible but NZ has some kind of governmental review process that could mean 10 years before things are restored to the way they were. It was odd to run into fenced off roads and piles of rubble on a corner that represented what was left of a demolished building. A little eerie. We ended up at an Italian Restaurant called Tutto Benne. Delicious last meal in NZ.
The holiday park we stayed at proved to be my least favorite. There were some men a few doors down that hung out on their patio all evening drinking and getting loud but I figured out of all the places we stayed, having 1 bad experience wasn't not so bad. We didnt' want to sleep really anyway because we knew when we woke up it would be our final day in this great place.
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