The alarm didn't go off today at 7am as planned. We had forgotten to set the alarm, and all 4 of us got up only at 830am to have breakfast.
After checking out of Colonial Village motel and loading our luggage into the boot (which was quite a feat cause it was raining), K drove the 4 hour leg to Fox Glacier / Franz Josef. It rained non stop all the way for the next 4 hours. As we drove up the mountains towards Cardrona at Wanaka, we had snow fall. It was beautiful. I tried to take pictures and a video shot, but it cannot justify how beautiful the real thing looked and felt.
Along the way, I started on a book by Ellen Degeneres, which tickled me so much i actually enjoyed it. Lunch was fish and chips and a bowl of deep fried stuff (nuggest / spring rolls, samosa etc) at a small city called Haast. For some reason, I felt so tired after lunch that i fell asleep with my mouth open for most of the drive after that.
We finally reached the town of Fox Glacier around 3pm. The town is so small we only took 15 minutes to drive around before deciding there is nothing there, and continued driving to Franz Josef about 40km away. Franz Josef is a much bigger town, and we found our accomodation at a backpackers with free 24 hr internet access. It was still raining by the time we checked in and unloaded. And there is practically nothing to do except go for glacier walks and glow worm caves. But since it's raining, none of us wanted to do either of the two.
Having unloadedour stuff, the 4 of us walked to the nearby (and only one) supermarket to buy ingredients for dinner. We had pan fried egg with ham, mushroom and cheese, fried rice with chicken and vegetables, and maggi instant curry noodles. Everything turned out very nice except my instant noodles, which was soggy and does not taste anything like curry at all.. = )
K and EK are playing War Craft on their laptops again now.. EK and S have just returned from their glow worm cave exploration with 2 other Taiwanese we met at the back packers. I wanted to go but K advised against it cause it was (and still is) raining and the caves / paths might be slippery. Well.. too bad!
Since there isn't anything to do here, and weather forecast is still going to be rain tomorrow, we will most likely check out and drive again to god knows where.. = )
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