West Coast, New Zealand!

Hey everybody!!

A couple weeks ago, we went to the west coast of New Zealand for a weekend trip! We heard it was absolutely gorgeous there (where isn't) and everyone was right! We went to a place called Franz Josef, which is home to the Franz Josef glacier. 

See? Proof of me driving on the left side of the road!! 

We all really loved kayaking in Wanaka and wanted to give it another go in New Zealand. The company we went through was ranked #1 in NZ and boy, do they earn that title. We got to spend 3 hours on the water. Even though, my kayak was a little broken (The rudder wouldn't turn my boat to the left!) it got fixed quickly and I had an amazing rest of the time! I couldn't believe all the beauty in the water. The tour guides let us do some pretty cool stuff too:)

We got to sit in the middle of a Kiwi sanctuary! We didn't see any because kiwis are nocturnal and we were there in the middle of the day, but it was still very cool to know they were around!

Then the activities began! We got to stand up in the kayaks and sing "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" but instead of toes, we had to jump! It was scary at first but then really fun!

This guy had to eskimo kiss the top of ANOTHER PERSON'S kayak!

They had me dip my hair in the water and flick it and hit the person next to me!! Not very nice!

Here are just a couple more cool kayaking pictures!

On the way home, we took our time and stopped at a bunch of beaches!! They were absolutely beautiful. I think we stopped at a total of 4 different ones! Gorgeous! 

One of the beaches we stopped at had a ton of stones with pens by them. People wrote messages to loved ones, or wrote down inspirational quotes, or just wrote down something silly on them. Here are some of my favorites! 

This might be my last post, at least for a little while, because we're off on our next adventure now! Today we leave for Queenstown and then on Monday, we're off to Sydney, Australia! I'm not sure how god on internet I'll be getting so I'll definitely update ASAP once I get home, if not before!

Thanks for reading!